Advances in Ergonomics in Manufacturing Advances in Human Factors and Ergonomics Series

Meeting the needs of the manufacturing and service sectors of contemporary industry, this volume is concerned with the human factors, ergonomics, and safety issues related to the design of products, processes, and systems, as well as the operation and management of business enterprises. This book will be of special value to researchers and practitioners involved in the design of products, processes, systems, and services, which are marketed and utilized by a variety of organizations around the world.

Section I: Human Oriented Organization; Chapter 1: Organizational Innovations and Knowledge Based Enterprises. Theoretical Postulates and Empirical Issues; Chapter 2: Chosen Methods Supporting Management of Enterprise's Agility; Chapter 3: Workforce Diversity and Ergonomic Challenges for Sustainable Manufacturing Organizations; Chapter 4: Integrative Production Technology for High-Wage Countries - Resolving the Polylemma of Production; Chapter 5: Management Audit as Part of an Ergonomics Management in Production Systems; Chapter 6: Ergonomic Intervention Plan for Machinery Operators; Chapter 7: Human-Machine-Systems for Future Smart Factories; Chapter 8: The Role of Ergonomic Factors in the Modeling of Project Management Organization; Chapter 9: User-centered Design of a Game-based, Virtual Training System; Chapter 10: Age-appropriate Workplace Engineering with the Aid of Cardboard Engineering; Chapter 11: A Flexible Intelligent Algorithm for Identification of Optimum Mix of Demographic Variables for Integrated HSEE-ISO Systems: The Case of A Gas Transmission Refinery; Chapter 12: Hybrid Meta-heuristic Based Occupational Health Management System for Indian Workers Exposed to Risk of Heat Stress; Chapter 13: Adaptive Assembly Planning for a Nondeterministic Domain; Chapter 14: Planning-modules for Manual Assembly Using Virtual Reality Techniques; Chapter 15: Learning and Forgetting in Production-inventory Systems with Perishable Seasonal Items; Section II: Work Study — Improving the Skills, Quality and Effectiveness; Chapter 16: Influence at Years of Experience on Operation Concerning Kyoto Style Earthen Wall; Chapter 17: Comparison of Painting Technique of Urushi Products between Expert and Non-expert; Chapter 18: Subjective Evaluation of Kyo-Yuzen-dyed Fabrics with Different Material in Putting-past (Nori-oki) Process; Chapter 19: Human Motion of Weaving “Kana-ami” Technique by Biomechanical Analysis; Chapter 20: Subjective Evaluation for Beauty of Texture on Metal Surface with Chasing Operation; Chapter 21: Analysis of “kyo-Gashi” Techniques and Skills for Japanese Sweets Experts; Chapter 22: Analysis of Operation and Eye Movement Concerning Master of Wire Net; Chapter 23: Highly Cultured Brush Manufactured by Traditional Brush Mixing Technique “KEMOMI”; Chapter 24: Virtual Agent Assistance for Maintenance Tasks in IPS 2 – First Results of a Study; Chapter 25: Analysis of Operation and Eye Movement Concerning Master of Wire Net; Chapter 26: A New Method for Forecasting the Learning Time of Sensorimotor Tasks; Section III: Human Factors in Work Systems; Chapter 27: Industrial Robots – the New Friends of an Aging Workforce?; Chapter 28: The Effect of Anthropomorphic Movements of Assembly Robots on Human prediction; Chapter 29: Design and Implementation of a Comprehensible Cognitive Assembly System; Chapter 30: Navigation as a Key for Self-Optimizing Assembly Processes; Chapter 31: Assembly Motion Planning Using Controlled Collisions; Chapter 32: Improving Operator's Conformity with Expectations in a Cognitively Automated Assembly Cell Using Human Heuristics; Chapter 33: Cooperative Disassembly of Human and Robot Using an Augmented Vision System; Chapter 34: Artificial Intelligence in Optimizing Environmental Factors towards Human performance; Chapter 35: Perceptions of Traffic Enforcers on Road Traffic Noise and Its Potential Non-Auditory Effects; Chapter 36: Temporal Strategy and Performance during a Short-cycle Fatiguing Repetitive Task; Chapter 37: Kitting as an Information Source in Manual Assembly; Chapter 38: A Biomechanical Evaluation of Dynamic and Asymmetric Lifting Using the AnyBody Commercial Software: A Pilot Study; Chapter 39: Real-time Measuring System of Eye-gaze Location and Writing Pressure in Calligraphy; Chapter 40: Use of a Monocular See- Through Head-Mounted Display while Walking: A Comparison of Different User Interfaces; Chapter 41: A Game System for Visually Impaired Utilizing Kinect; Chapter 42: A Case Study of Participatory Ergonomics in the Quality Assessment of a Drilling “Dog House”; Section IV: Toward an Ergonomic Product; Chapter 43: A Calculation Model for Ergonomics Cost-benefit Analyses in Early Product Development Stages; Chapter 44: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Haptic Feedback on a Steering Wheel for BSW; Chapter 45: Identifying Affective Satisfaction Elements of a Smartphone Application; Chapter 46: Identifying Elements of User Value for Smartphones through a Longitudinal Observation; Chapter 47: Development of an Affective Satisfaction Model for Smartphones; Chapter 48: Determination of Ringtone Volumes of Mobile Phones: Applying Signal Detection Theory; Chapter 49: Design and Evaluation of Methods to Aid Onehanded Input in Mobile Touch Screen Devices; Chapter 50: Evaluation Method for Product End-Of-Life Selection Strategy; Chapter 51: Studying Customer Experience for Chinese Fast-Food Service; Chapter 52: Effects of Preference on Crape Structure of Saijo Japanese Paper; Chapter 53: One New Anthropometrical Method for Body Measurement in Motion; Chapter 54: Experimental Measurement of Body Size and Practice of Teaching and Research; Chapter 55: A Study of Shoe Sizing Systems: Foot Anthropometry of Filipino Children Aged 7-12; Chapter 56: The Customer Requirements for Sandals- Inspirations for Design

Trzcielinski\, Stefan; Karwowski\, Waldemar