Reliability and validity of postural evaluations with Kinect v2 sensor ergonomic evaluation system

Abstract:

Postural evaluations are becoming a priority in a world where occupational diseases derivatives from ergonomic situations are progressively common with serious consequences. This document proposes a semi-automatic ergonomic evaluation system with Kinect V2, which use the RULA method. It makes possible the discovery of conditions with postural risk and reduces errors in the estimating the evaluators’ measurements due to lack of experience, expertise and handling of measurement instruments. Reducing the ergonomic evaluation time, compared to the direct postural evaluation method at a low cost. In a controlled environment, 30 participants with homogeneous characteristics are evaluated their postural work, using a direct method (goniometer) and a non-invasive (Kinect V2) method, to then compared the statistically results using the coefficient of correlation named Cohen’s Kappa and …

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2019

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