Effect of Fatigue of the Protective Clothing Wearer on Body Balance Performance Caused by Shorten or Prolonged Workload with Heat Exposure

Suyoung Son, Ken Tokizawa

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Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the effect of fatigue on body balance performance caused by shorten and prolonged workload with heat exposure. Shorten and prolonged experiments were conducted for the present study. Ten healthy men participated in the experiment for exploring of deterioration of balance ability by physiological and psychological fatigue due to heat exposure with wearing protective clothing for construction sites. The main finding of this study indicates that body balance performance was affected by shorten and prolonged workload with heat exposure. The core temperature and body weight loss measured during workload with heat exposure were significantly high. The body sway parameters showed a similar tendency, although the differences were not significant. Accumulation of fatigue from prolonged stress from workload and heat exposure seems to contribute to the decline in body balance performance.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Industrial Design - Proceedings of the AHFE 2020 Virtual Conferences on Design for Inclusion, Affective and Pleasurable Design, Interdisciplinary Practice in Industrial Design, Kansei Engineering, and Human Factors for Apparel and Textile Engineering
EditorsGiuseppe Di Bucchianico, Cliff Sungsoo Shin, Scott Shim, Shuichi Fukuda, Gianni Montagna, Cristina Carvalho
PublisherSpringer
Pages856-861
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)9783030511937
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
EventAHFE Virtual Conference on Design for Inclusion, the Virtual Conference on Interdisciplinary Practice in Industrial Design, the Virtual Conference on Affective and Pleasurable Design, the Virtual Conference on Kansei Engineering, and the Virtual Conference on Human Factors for Apparel and Textile Engineering, 2020 - San Diego, United States
Duration: 16 Jul 202020 Jul 2020

Publication series

NameAdvances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
Volume1202 AISC
ISSN (Print)2194-5357
ISSN (Electronic)2194-5365

Conference

ConferenceAHFE Virtual Conference on Design for Inclusion, the Virtual Conference on Interdisciplinary Practice in Industrial Design, the Virtual Conference on Affective and Pleasurable Design, the Virtual Conference on Kansei Engineering, and the Virtual Conference on Human Factors for Apparel and Textile Engineering, 2020
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Diego
Period16/07/2020/07/20

Keywords

  • Body balance
  • Fatigue
  • Heat exposure
  • Workload test

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