From the idea to the user: a pragmatic multifaceted approach to testing occupational exoskeletons.

ABSTRACT: Assessment of occupational exoskeletons should ideally include longitudinal and multistage studies in real working scenarios to prove their effectiveness and sustainability in real in-field contexts and to help generalize the findings for specific scenarios. This work presents a comprehensive assessment methodology implemented as a multistage experimental campaign for rail industry workers using a back-support exoskeleton (StreamEXO). This work demonstrates that a sector/task-specific exoskeleton developed to address work task-specific requirements generates beneficial performance and user experience results. The experimental work in this paper involves collecting data from nine workers over multiple days of testing. During this testing, workers did not report hindrances to their work oper

SUBMITTER: Di Natali C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11810522 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature