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Human Factors Design Problems of Fire Fighters
(Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 1978-10-01)
Problems of job and equipment design that contribute to the occupational health and safety of fire fighters is reviewed. The job of fighting fires is physically demanding and most fire fighters do not have a fitness level ...
Data for Designing Hand Tools for Female Craft Workers
(Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 1979-10-01)
This paper reviews the anthropometric and strength data collected on women which can be used to redesign tools to permit the female workers to successfully function in the craft areas. Data was collected on women currently ...
A Human Factors Evaluation of the American Kitchen
(Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 1975-10-01)
Kitchen design is evaluated using counter space, counter location and counter height as the criteria. A survey of apartment kitchens showed that designers generally follow the guidelines for total counter space, but the ...
Adaptive Effects of Static Muscular Strength Training
(Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 1975-10-01)
The trend towards mechanization of tasks involving manual labor has increased the importance of static muscular activity (isometric contractions). Information about the physiological reaction to static muscular activity ...
Prediction of Cardiac Response to Physical Stress
(Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 1974-10-01)
This paper presents a method for predicting an individual's cardiac response to a series of fixed intensity tasks. It was determined that cardiac responses to exercise at given work loads are similar for subjects of the ...
Strategies for Improving Visual Inspection Performance
(Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 1974-10-01)
This paper summarizes recent results obtained in inspection studies including several studies performed by the authors. Both static and dynamic visual inspection tasks are included. Based on these results, a proposed new ...