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111. Usability of an Active Hand Grip Strength Industrial Exoskeleton: A Heuristic Evaluation
DescriptionRecently, wearable industrial and occupational exoskeletons have emerged as a promising solution to alleviate the problem of work-related musculoskeletal disorders in industrial workplaces and maintain worker productivity and safety while performing industrial tasks. Our study focuses on a heuristic evaluation of an active soft exoskeleton for hand grip strength augmentation. We evaluated violations of usability heuristics in the exoskeleton when assembling, donning, doffing and disassembling the device, given that these are the basic tasks that the design of any exoskeleton needs to first afford and support for any user to successfully use this device. Seven evaluators used a combination of the Nielsen usability heuristics, and Schneiderman’s golden rules, to find usability problems and rate the severity of the usability violations for the four tasks. Results indicate that the visibility of system status, and error pre-vention heuristics were violated the most.
Event Type
Poster
TimeWednesday, September 11th5:30pm - 6:30pm MST
LocationMcArthur Ballroom
Tracks
Aerospace Systems
Cognitive Engineering & Decision Making
Computer Systems
Forensics Professional
Health Care
Human Performance Modeling
Individual Differences in Performance
Perception and Performance
Product Design
Safety
Training
Usability and System Evaluation
Extended Reality