Abstract
Anthropometric measurements of driving posture have been an attractive scientific issue concerning drivers’ comfort and safety. However, Kinect, as a low-cost motion capture device, was seldom used. In this study, 10 participants were recruited and 40 experiments were conducted. The driving posture of all participants was captured twice from frontal and sagittal plane. Shoulder flexion angles (SFA) and elbow flexion angles (EFA) were calculated using Kinect-captured skeletal data and compared with the corresponding angles measured with a protractor. Our study revealed a significant lower bias compared with the protractor measured angles (p = 0.000) and more accurate angles (p = 0.026) were found in the sagittal plane than in the frontal plane. The mean bias of SFA and EFA for the frontal plane was 18.8°, while it was 9.7° for the sagittal plane. More robust algorithms are anticipated in future study, and group Kinects may compensate for the low accuracy of single Kinect use.
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This research is supported by Special funds for the basic R&D undertakings by welfare research institutions (522016Y-4680), National Key R&D Program of China (2017) YFF0206602, General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People’s Republic of China (201510042). The authors also appreciate the support from the State Scholarship Fund from China Scholarship Council (201208110144), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51005016), and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China (FRF-TP-14-026A2).
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Zhao, Y., Wang, Y., Niu, J., Ran, L., Liu, T. (2019). Using Kinect to Capture the Joint Angles of Static Driving Posture. In: Goonetilleke, R., Karwowski, W. (eds) Advances in Physical Ergonomics & Human Factors. AHFE 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 789. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94484-5_31
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