Ergonomics & Human Factors 2019 - Smart glasses in warehouse: An ergonomic view

Perspicacious glasses or data glasses present novel technological equipment with a great potential in different environments and especially in warehouses. Despite of several benefits such as fortifying workers with right information at right time, amended productivity because of both free hands and others there are withal possible quandaries evidenced from literature that work with head mounted exhibits (HMD) can additionally cause headaches, pressure in ocular perceivers, quandaries with focusing and additionally the difficulties of text reading. To study addressed quandaries we performed a research together with ophthalmologists from Maribor Healthcare Centre. The research was funded by The Public Scholarship, Development, Incapacitation and Maintenance Fund of the Republic of Slovenia. We tested effects of utilizing perspicacious glasses Vuzix M300 during order picking activities that last four hours in testing warehouse environment at the faculty of mechanical engineering. We tested users comfort during wearing astute glasses through detailed questionnaire, performed several ocular perceiver investigations afore and after utilization of perspicacious glasses and performed several ergonomics analyses about workers posture during work. Results corroborated some benefits and additionally obstacles. Among them two ergonomics quandaries can be exposed that are tested by HMD which is very cumbersomely hefty and not the most felicitous for long-term use and since start button for scan function is on keenly intellective glasses a constant posture with hoisted right arm is present that can be deleterious for worker according to ergonomics standards.

Keywords: Accommodation Systems Engineering, Accommodation Support Systems, Astute Glasses, Design Science Research. 

 

Author(s): Natasa Vujica Herzog, Borut Buchmeister, Brigita Gajsek and Amer Beharic University of Maribor, Slovenia Healthcare Center dr. Adolfa Drolca Maribor, Slovenia  

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