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The basic intention of this study was to find the discomfort of wearing formal shoes of regular working professionals like engineers who must look formal always. The independent variables are shoes heel height and shoes weight. The dependent variables are EMG signal of lower limb muscle actives and user discomfort questionnaire. This study considered 07 male participants of age group 20–30 in Lamar University campus and its neighborhood. Primarily, this study focused on the two lower limb muscles’ (Tibialis anterior and medial head of the gastrocnemius) activities to find the muscle stress of the participants. For both lower limb muscles, the two-way ANOVA analysis revealed a significant main effect of shoes weight. However, there was no significant main effect of shoes heel height on both muscle activities. The user discomfort survey indicates that low heel low weight shoe caused less fatigue and provided more comfort than the other types of shoes.
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Paul, N., Fnu, M., Julapally, S., Li, Y., Craig, B. (2019). Analysis of Muscular Fatigue and Foot Discomfort While Wearing Different Types of Men’s Formal Shoes. In: Goonetilleke, R., Karwowski, W. (eds) Advances in Physical Ergonomics & Human Factors. AHFE 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 789. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94484-5_43
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