Perception of safe robot idle time in virtual reality and real industrial environments

International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 807-812

  Or, Calvin K L ^a   Duffy, Vincent G ^b   Cheung, Chui Chui ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Human perception; Industrial robot; Safe robot idle time; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX MACHINERY; HAZARD PREVENTION; HUMAN PERCEPTION; IDLE TIME; INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS; MENTAL WORKLOAD; MOVING OBJECTS; OPERATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS; ROBOT MOTION; ROBOT OPERATORS; ROBOT SAFETY; ROBOTIC SYSTEMS; SAFE ROBOT IDLE TIME; SAFETY BEHAVIOR; SAFETY INTERVENTION; STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT; VIRTUAL REALITY TECHNOLOGY; VIRTUAL-REALITY ENVIRONMENT;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; EXPERIMENTS; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; INDUSTRY; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MACHINERY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROBOTICS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOB PERFORMANCE; MALE; MATERIALS HANDLING; MENTAL STRESS; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; SELF REPORT; TIME PERCEPTION; VELOCITY; VIRTUAL REALITY; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORKLOAD;

EID: 68349160346     PISSN: 01698141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ergon.2009.01.003     Document Type: Article

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