工作服设计对工人舒适性的影响外文文献.pdfVIP

Available online at ScienceDirect Procedia Manufacturing 3 ( 2015 ) 5889 – 5896 6th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2015) and the Affiliated Conferences, AHFE 2015 The impact of work clothing design on workers’ comfort a, b a c b Sara Bragança *, Liliana Fontes , Pedro Arezes , Elazer R. Edelman , Miguel Carvalho a Department of Production and Systems, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal b Department of Textile Engineering, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal c Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA Abstract Physical and physiological comfort, at work and during leisure time, is important to human health and motivation. A growing number of jobs require workers to sit. Most clothes, except those intended for wheelchair users, were designed for walking or the standing position. Clothing designs should be user-oriented and meet users’ needs. Garment design should conform to body position and posture, not just shape and size. In this paper we present the ergometric impact of a new type of trousers designed to adapt to changes in position. Concentrations of compression forces, temperature and pressure were documented in an exploratory pilot study and contrasted to traditional designs. The new trousers showed significant decreases in compression force