IISE transactions on occupational ergonomics and human factors
Mar 18, 2024
OCCUPATIONAL APPLICATIONS"Overassistive" robots can adversely impact long-term human-robot collaboration in the workplace, leading to risks of worker complacency, reduced workforce skill sets, and diminished situational awareness. Ergonomics practiti...
IISE transactions on occupational ergonomics and human factors
Mar 8, 2024
OCCUPATIONAL APPLICATIONSWe used a survey to evaluate the perceptions of nurses and nursing students on robotic technology for nursing care before and after reviewing an educational video that included examples of medical, care, and healthcare servic...
IISE transactions on occupational ergonomics and human factors
Feb 8, 2024
OCCUPATIONAL APPLICATIONSIndustrial robots have become an important aspect in modern industry. In the context of human-robot collaboration, enabling teleoperated robots to work in close proximity to local/onsite humans can provide new opportunities t...
IISE transactions on occupational ergonomics and human factors
Jan 8, 2024
Occupational ApplicationsAutonomous mobile robots are used in manufacturing and warehousing industries, to transport material across the facility and deliver parts to work cells. Human workers might encounter or interact with these robots in aisle wa...
IISE transactions on occupational ergonomics and human factors
Dec 6, 2023
OCCUPATIONAL APPLICATIONSAn understanding of fluency in human-robot teaming from a physiological standpoint is still incomplete. In our experimental study involving 24 participants, we designed a scenario for shared-space human-robot collaboration (H...
IISE transactions on occupational ergonomics and human factors
Nov 25, 2023
OCCUPATIONAL APPLICATIONSAfter viewing video vignettes of human interactions with a novel soft growing robot, we found that participants reported fewer perceived safety hazards, less anxiety and fear about robots, reduced social hesitancy about human...
IISE transactions on occupational ergonomics and human factors
Nov 11, 2023
OCCUPATIONAL APPLICATIONSOur survey of 100 manufacturing facilities revealed statistically significant differences among company types in their perceptions of cost savings, productivity gains, and safety improvements as benefits of robotic implementa...
IISE transactions on occupational ergonomics and human factors
Jun 22, 2023
OCCUPATIONAL APPLICATIONSIn modern industrial plants, collisions between humans and robots pose a significant risk to occupational safety. To address this concern, we sought to devise a reliable system for human-robot collision avoidance system emplo...