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Design Strategies For A Drinking Cup To Accommodate Hand Tremor, Ehsan Abbaszadeh Northeastern University

Design Strategies For A Drinking Cup To Accommodate Hand Tremor, Ehsan Abbaszadeh

Mechanical Engineering Master's Theses

Hand tremor is an involuntary muscle movement, trembling, or shaking of the hands. Caused by either essential tremor (ET) or Parkinson's disease, tremors often affect daily activities including feeding, drinking, typing, and writing. To reveal the design strategies to diminish effects of hand tremor in handheld devices, and in particular a drinking cup in this research, an experimental framework based on vibrations and dynamics has been developed with inspiration from the well-known gyroscopic boat stabilizers, i.e. Schlick stabilizers, in which a high speed rotating disk has been used as a source of angular momentum, producing a resistive gyroscopic ...

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An Investigation Of Medical Device Design And Physical Ergonomics In Healthcare, Adam E. de Laveaga University of Nebraska - Lincoln

An Investigation Of Medical Device Design And Physical Ergonomics In Healthcare, Adam E. De Laveaga

Industrial and Management Systems Engineering -- Dissertations and Student Research

Human factors and process engineering are becoming a prominent area of research and application for industrial engineering principles as healthcare providers seek to improve patient safety, quality the optimization of resources. Human factors engineering and ergonomics play a crucial role in the pursuit of operational excellence and patient safety in healthcare. These disciplines contain the tools required to develop instrumentation, technology and training that can improve the usability of medical technology and the quality of care that patients receive. Designing tasks, tools and processes for optimal human use can enhance performance, reduce errors and improve safety. This thesis encompasses three ...

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W. Patrick Neumann Ryerson University

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Yuan Chao Jiang California Polytechnic State University

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Design Of Assembly Lines With The Concurrent Consideration Of Productivity And Upper Extremity Musculoskeletal Disorders Using Linear Models, Zhan Xu

The Use Of Factor Analysis In The Development Of Hand Sizes For Glove Design, Trevor McLain

Ergonomics Contributions To Company Strategy, W. Patrick Neumann

Human Factors: Spanning The Gap Between Om & Hrm, W. Patrick Neumann, Jan Dul

Ergonomic Improvement On The Farm/Garden Hoe, Yuan Chao Jiang

Ergonomic Methods To Improve Safety In The Construction Sector And Reduce Costs, Mona Barjasteh

Production Ergonomics: Identifying And Managing Risk In The Design Of High Performance Work Systems, W. Patrick Neumann

The Effect Of External Distractions On Novice And Experienced Drivers' Anticipation Of Hazards And Vehicle Control, Gautam Divekar

On Effect Assessment In Work Environment Interventions – A Literature Overview And Methodological Reflection, W. Patrick Neumann, Jörgen Eklund, Bo Hansson, Lars Lindbeck

Systematic Evaluation Of Observational Methods Assessing Biomechanical Exposures At Work, W. Patrick Neumann

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