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IISE Transactions on Occupational Ergonomics and Human Factors Volume 7, 2019 - Issue 3-4: Occupational Exoskeletons, Guest Editors: Maury A. Nussbaum, Brian D. Lowe, Michiel de Looze, Carisa Harris-Adamson, Marty Smets
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Potential of Exoskeleton Technologies to Enhance Safety, Health, and Performance in Construction: Industry Perspectives and Future Research Directions

Sunwook KimDepartment of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA; ORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0003-3624-1781View further author information
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Albert MooreDepartment of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA; ORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0003-2930-5097View further author information
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Divya SrinivasanDepartment of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA; ORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0001-9327-6177View further author information
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Abiola AkanmuConstruction Engineering and Management, Myers Lawson School of Construction, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA; View further author information
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Carisa Harris-AdamsonDepartment of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, CA, USA; ;School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley, CA, USA; View further author information
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David M. RempelDepartment of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, CA, USA; View further author information
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Maury A. NussbaumDepartment of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA; ;Virginia Tech – Wake Forest School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences Blacksburg, Blacksburg, VA, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 185-191 | Received 21 Jun 2018, Accepted 17 Dec 2018, Published online: 01 Feb 2019

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Shirley A. Elprama, Sander De Bock, Romain Meeusen, Kevin De Pauw, Bram Vanderborght & An Jacobs. (2023) Design and Implementation Requirements for Increased Acceptance of Occupational Exoskeletons in an Industrial Context: A Qualitative Study. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction 0:0, pages 1-16.
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Diana Schwerha, Nathan McNamara, Sunwook Kim & Maury A. Nussbaum. (2022) Exploratory Field Testing of Passive Exoskeletons in Several Manufacturing Environments: Perceived Usability and User Acceptance. IISE Transactions on Occupational Ergonomics and Human Factors 10:2, pages 71-82.
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Thomas Schmalz, Anja Colienne, Emily Bywater, Lars Fritzsche, Christian Gärtner, Malte Bellmann, Samuel Reimer & Michael Ernst. (2022) A Passive Back-Support Exoskeleton for Manual Materials Handling: Reduction of Low Back Loading and Metabolic Effort during Repetitive Lifting. IISE Transactions on Occupational Ergonomics and Human Factors 10:1, pages 7-20.
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Ran Liu, Xun Mou & Hu-Chen Liu. (2020) Occupational Health and Safety Risk Assessment based on Combination Weighting and Uncertain Linguistic Information: Method Development and Application to a Construction Project. IISE Transactions on Occupational Ergonomics and Human Factors 8:4, pages 175-186.
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Maury A. Nussbaum, Brian D. Lowe, Michiel de Looze, Carisa Harris-Adamson & Marty Smets. (2019) An Introduction to the Special Issue on Occupational Exoskeletons. IISE Transactions on Occupational Ergonomics and Human Factors 7:3-4, pages 153-162.
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Rahul Narasimhan Raghuraman, Satyajit Upasani, Alec Gonzales, Jessica Aviles, Jackie Cha & Divya Srinivasan. Manufacturing Industry Stakeholder Perspectives on Occupational Exoskeletons: Changes After a Brief Exposure to Exoskeletons. IISE Transactions on Occupational Ergonomics and Human Factors 0:0, pages 1-8.
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