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Ambulatory assessment of physical workloads in field is necessary to investigate the risk of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSD). Since more than ten years the BGIA is developing and using the motion and force capture system CUELA (computer-assisted recording and long-term analysis of musculoskeletal load), which is designed for whole-shift recordings and analysis of work-related postural and mechanical loads in ergonomic field analysis. This article gives an overview of the actual state of development and some applications of the system.
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Ellegast, R., Hermanns, I., Schiefer, C. (2009). Workload Assessment in Field Using the Ambulatory CUELA System. In: Duffy, V.G. (eds) Digital Human Modeling. ICDHM 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5620. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02809-0_24
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