Development of a Mental-Stress-Reducing Excavator Cabin

To improve work-conditions for machine operators, Grammer develops an ergonomic analysis tool called the ‘Grammer User Experience-Tool’ (GUX-Tool) The first part of this graduation project consisted of a literature research, which has substantiated this GUX-Tool and has identified methods for measuring mental effort. The second part of the...

Assessment of Subjective Workload in Traffic Situations using Video Fragments

Mental workload is an important subject in traffic safety research, however workload measurements are expensive and time intensive. To this end a measurement method is developed which uses short video fragments of driving situations to the subject, after which they are asked about their perceived mental effort if they would be driving through...

Efficiency in work behaviour: A design approach for modern tools