Personalizing Physical Effort Estimation in Workplaces Using a Wearable Heart Rate Sensor

摘要

Sensor technology for personalized physiologic monitoring contributes to health and safety in workplaces. Wearable devices represent an efficient way to capture physiological values to obtain individual efforts for each worker due to physical activities. Heart rate based ergonomic methods provide results that show drudgery of a work activity for each person. In this paper, we show some experiments that highlight the importance when using custom methods to estimate the effort of people doing physical work. Previous works have already validated some benefits in using sensor technology to estimate physical efforts and energy consumption in the workplace. The results in our experiments applied to cleaning staff demonstrate how important is to use personalized measurements for more objective effort estimation.