This paper presents a solution that integrates a smart textiles systemwith virtual reality to assess the design of workstations from an ergonomics pointof view. By using the system, ergonomists, designers, engineers, and operators,can test design proposals of workstations in an immersive virtual environmentwhile they see their ergonomics evaluation results displayed in real-time.. Thesystem allows its users to evaluate the ergonomics of the workplace in a preproduction phase. The workstation design can be modified, enabling workstationdesigners to better understand, test and evaluate how to create successfulworkstation designs, eventually to be used by the operators in production. Thisapproach uses motion capture together with virtual reality and is aimed tocomplement and integrate with the use of digital human modelling (DHM)software at virtual stages of the production development process.
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This work has been made possible with the support from the Knowledge Foundation supported research environment INFINIT at University of Skövde, in the project Synergy Virtual Ergonomics (SVE), and with support from VINNOVA in the project VIVA - the Virtual Vehicle Assembler, and by the participating organizations. This support is gratefully acknowledged.