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The growing interest in exoskeletons indicates that wearable robotic devices will represent one of the next changes in many occupational scenarios and new challenge for human factors, ergonomics and safety disciplines.
Despite the high interest in exoskeletons with an occupational application to prevent work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WRMSDs), large-scale implementation of this type of exoskeletons has still a long way to go, mainly because there is little knowledge of these wearable service robot devices and their real preventive effects on WRMSDs, and because of some technical and user acceptability issues.
The objective of the work is to represent the state of the art of occupational exoskeletons and to illustrate the new challenges for ergonomics and safety disciplines. So, The work provides same needs must be met and what requirements this typology of exoskeleton must possess, in order to maximize the user benefits and minimize potential negative impacts, using a human-centred design (HCD) and presents results of a joint INAIL/IIT project on collaborative exoskeletons.
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Monica, L., Draicchio, F., Ortiz, J., Chini, G., Toxiri, S., Anastasi, S. (2021). Occupational Exoskeletons: A New Challenge for Human Factors, Ergonomics and Safety Disciplines in the Workplace of the Future. In: Black, N.L., Neumann, W.P., Noy, I. (eds) Proceedings of the 21st Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2021). IEA 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 222. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74611-7_17
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