Maury A. Nussbaum

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Wallace "Wally" Morris, a Ph.D. candidate, successfully defended his dissertation, "A Postural Exposure Assessment of Dental Health Professionals and the Effectiveness of Exoskeletons to Reduce Ergonomic Risk in Dentistry." Congratulations, Wally! (May 2025)

A new article Passive back support exoskeletons do not effectively reduce physical demands during simulated floor tiling was published in Applied Ergonomics (May 2025).

A new article Perspectives of Mining Personnel on Adopting Occupational Exoskeletons: Comparisons Between a Developed and a Developing Country was published in Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (April 2025).

Four (4) more new articles were published (March 2025):

• Cognitive workload assessment during VR forklift training was published in International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics

• Passive arm-support and back-support exoskeletons have distinct phase-dependent effects on physical demands during cart pushing and pulling: An exploratory study was published in Applied Ergonomics

• Estimating dynamic external hand forces during overhead work with and without an exoskeleton: Evaluating an approach using electromyography signals and random forest regression was published in International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics

• Understanding the drivers of and barriers to adopting passive back- and arm-support exoskeletons in construction: Results from interviews and short-term field testing was published in International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics

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A new article Gait variability predicts post-fatigue obstacle course performance among military cadets: An exploratory study was published in Applied Ergonomics (March 2025).

A new article Older workers spend less time in extreme trunk and upper-arm postures during order-picking tasks: Results from field testing was published in Applied Ergonomics (January 2025).