Optimized Posture Preferred Angles Catalog

Licensing
  The Optimized Posture Preferred Angles Catalog is only available with a product license.
The different preferred angles saved in the catalogs allow the user to analyze if a posture is safe or comfortable. The task enables you to visualize the colors on the manikin.

Open Human Builder and refer to Opening the Standard Human Catalog to open the optimized posture preferred angles catalog.

  1. Double right-click on the manikin, and select Properties.

  2. On the Coloring tab, select Active.

  3. Under Elements to color, select Surface.

  4. Click Apply, then OK.

References

 

 Sitting
  • Car
    • Human Scale [1991]
    • Weichenrider [1985]
    • Wisner and Rebiffe [1963]
    • Rebiffe [1969]
    • Grandjean [1980]
    • Porter and Guy [1998]
    • Babbs [1979]

Cockpit

  • Human Scale [1991]

General

  • UBA sitting [2001] Dohyung Kee and Waldemar Karwowski, LUBA: an assessment technique for postural loading on the upper body based on joint motion discomfort and maximum holding time, Volume 32, Issue 4 , August 2001, Pages 357-366
  • Monroe et al. [2001]

Keyboarding

  • CCOHS [1995] Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety http://www.cchst.ca/reponsessst/ergonomics/sitting/sitting_position.html

Manufacturing

Shoulder

  • Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) and Workplace Factors, A Critical Review of Epidemiologic Evidence for Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders of the Neck, Upper Extremity, and Low Back, NIOSH
  • Levitz and Iannotti [1995] Brian D. Lowe, Accuracy and validity of observational estimates of shoulder and elbow posture, Applied Ergonomics 35 (2004) 159–171. IlKKa Kuorinka et Lina Forcier, Ouvrage de référence sur les lésions musculo-squelettiques liées au travail
  • Bjelle et al. [1981]
  • Aaras et al. [1988]
  • Chaffin [1973]
  • Herberts et al. [1980]
  • Jarvholm et al. [1990]
  • Hagberg [1981]

Wrist

  • KUORINKA I. ; FORCIER L. et coll. "LATR. Les lésions attribuables au travail répétitif . Ouvrage de référence sur les lésions musculo-squelettiques liées au travail". IRSST. éditions Maloine, 1995
  • Smith et al [1977]
  • Huenting et al. [1981] Moore, J. S. and A. Garg (1995). The Strain Index: a proposed method to analyze jobs for risk of distal upper extremity disorders. Am Ind Hyg Assoc J 56(5): 443-58 Pierre Harichaux, Jean-Pierre Libert, Ergonomie et prévention de risques professionnels
  • Loslever [1992]

General

  • Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) and Workplace Factors, A Critical Review of Epidemiologic Evidence for Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders of the Neck, Upper Extremity, and Low Back, NIOSH
  • Ohlsson et al. [1995] INRS [1996] Aptel Michel, Cail François, Aublet-Cuvelier Agnès, ED 957, Les troubles musculosqelettiques du members supérieur (TMS-MS), guide pour les préventeurs, INRS, Octobre 2005.
  • Dohyung Kee and Waldemar Karwowski, LUBA: an assessment technique for postural loading on the upper body based on joint motion discomfort and maximum holding time, Volume 32, Issue 4 , August 2001, Pages 357-366 H. Modod, B.Kapitaniak, Ergonomie
  • Péninou [1995] Trunk Geoffrey David, Valerie Woods and Peter Buckle, Further development of the usability and validity of the Quick Exposure Check (QEC), RESEARCH REPORT 211.

Vision

  • Panero et Zelnik [1979] Human dimension and interior space, Whitney Library of design, Architectural press Ltd, Londres, 1979.
  • AFNOR [1997] NF X 35-101-2
  • Human Scale [1991]
  • Military Standard [1989] Handbook for human engineering design guidelines, department of defense, MIL-HDBK- 759C, 31 July 1995, p.137, 138.