The research focuses human/product-interaction and human/production system-interaction. The goal is to develop tools and/or guidelines that are useful for industry in order to create attractive products and production systems which are efficient as well as safe and healthy for humans.
Human simulation and visualization programs are central to this research. Interaction analyses are performed using commercial programs as well as new tools developed based on field experiments using equipment such as motion capture, eye tracking and EMG. The tools are designed to be integrated in programs for predicting human health and productivity based on characteristics of human, task and environment.
Examples of investigated issues: how to represent humans, how to control the manikins’ movements, how to combine objective evaluation methods and pictures for the presentation of result and overall usage of the program. The programs are also tested for validity, for example, prediction of muscle force based on EMG data, prediction of manikin posture in relation to human posture. The current focus is on the correlation between sick leave, product quality and time dependent output generated in the programs. This includes information about joint angles, forces and torques.
Contact
Contact person: Lars Hanson.
Mail: lars.hanson@design.lth.se
Visiting address: Sölvegatan 26
Postal address: Ergonomics, Design Scinces, Lund University
221 00 Lund
Sweden
Phone: +46 46 2224066
Fax: +46 46 2224431
Website: www.eat.lth.se