Subjective Assessment of Occupational Exoskeletons: Feasibility Study for a Custom Survey for Braces

Abstract

Occupational exoskeletons are emerging as a viable solution to mitigate the effect of poor ergonomic work tasks. However, there is still a lack of understanding of which are the key factors to improve the low acceptance rate, from a subjective point of view. Effectively translating users’ feedback in requirements is of paramount importance to raise adoption of exoskeletons. To this end, we present and evaluate a tailored set of constructs and questions to collect subjective ratings of braces, that are the physical interface between users and exoskeletons and play a key role in acceptance rate.