Development of an educational support system for care workers based on the assessment of lower-back muscular work load

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K12432
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Educational technology
• Research Institution: Industrial Research Institute of Shizuoka Prefecture
• Principal Investigator: YOTO YI TSUYOSHI 静岡県工業技術研究所, ユニバーサルデザイン科, 上席研究員 (50505641)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 前中 一介 兵庫県立大学, 工学研究科, 教授 (70173721)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): SHIMOMURA Yoshihiro 千葉大学, 教授 (60323432) ; KOMATSU Takeshi 静岡県工業技術研究所, 上席研究員 (60505634) ; MURAMATSU Sigeo 静岡県工業技術研究所, 上席研究員 (50522538) ; OGA Kumi 静岡県工業技術研究所, 研究員 (50807534) ; NAKAI Akira 大阪電気通信大学, 特任教授 (80635293)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 教育支援 / 介護動作 / 筋電計測 / 行動観察 / 腰の負担 / ユーザビリティ評価

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In order to sufficiently secure care worker personnel, it is important to consider new measures to prevent low back complications during the training stage for nursing staff. Based on the requests of the teachers of care worker, we made a prototype of small wireless muscular workload meter which attaches to the waist of a student, and it measures the workload of muscle of students practicing nursing care movement in class. In addition, the prototype sends muscular workload data to a tablet PC while the tablet captures the video data of the care worker during training. This data is synchronized in real-time. For the prototype system, we conducted usability tests with teachers and students from welfare universities. As a result, it was useful for teaching nursing care procedures and was evaluated as a useful tool. (88 satisfactory points with 100 points outstanding).

Free Research Field

人間工学