A hand speed-duty cycle equation for estimating the ACGIH hand activity level rating.
A hand speed-duty cycle equation for estimating the ACGIH hand activity level rating.
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DOI:
10.1080/00140139.2014.966155
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发表时间:
2015
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影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
Radwin RG
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作者:
Akkas O;Azari DP;Chen CH;Hu YH;Ulin SS;Armstrong TJ;Rempel D;Radwin RG
An equation was developed for estimating hand activity level (HAL) directly from tracked RMS hand speed (S) and duty cycle (D). Table lookup, equation, or marker-less video tracking can estimate HAL from motion/exertion frequency (F) and D. Since automatically estimating F is sometimes complex, HAL may be more readily assessed using S. Hands from 33 videos originally used for the HAL rating were tracked to estimate S, scaled relative to hand breadth (HB), and single-frame analysis was used to measure D. Since HBs were unknown, a Monte Carlo method was employed for iteratively estimating the regression coefficients from US Army anthropometry survey data. The equation: , R2 = 0.97, had a residual range ±0.5 HAL. The S equation superiorly fit the data and predicted independently observed HAL values better (MSE=0.16) than the F equation (MSE=1.28). An equation was developed for estimating the HAL rating for the ACGIH Threshold Limit Value® based on hand RMS speed and duty cycle. Speed is more readily evaluated from videos using semi-automatic markerless tracking, than frequency. The speed equation predicted observed HAL values much better than the F equation.