By the time this – the third issue of the year – is in print, I hope we will be nearer to a resolution of the pandemic that allows us to gather safely once again. Since last year, remote working and learning from home have increased exponentially. Some of us have had to find creative ways to outfit our homes to accommodate our remote learning and work. Thanks to COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019), we have been inundated with literature from academicians, ergonomics practitioners, manufacturers, and nonspecialists on the various ways of working from home. This information includes sit–stand desk options and their ease of adjustability, features such as the controls and displays on desks for ease of operation, software and hardware options that provide passive and active aids for rest breaks, and more. With a wide variety of sit–stand desks available, the field of ergonomics continues to explore ways to reliably measure user behavior in the face of each desk’s adjustability. This is where the first article by Viggiani et al. takes us, as the authors from Canada explore how to quantify the use of sit–stand desks. They built a low-cost sensor using commercially available off-the-shelf components that can measure desk height from the floor and desk–user distance and temperature to differentiate the user from other furniture near the desk. To validate the sensor’s height adjustability, the authors surveyed both men and women to identify the range of preferred desk heights and then simulated the full range of sitting and standing desk heights in their laboratory. Multinomial logistic regression was utilized to classify three behavioral desk conditions: standing at, sitting at, and moving away from the desk, while a bootstrapping validation technique was used to evaluate the sensor’s operating performance. The authors concluded that inexpensive desk-mounted sensors could assess the user’s behavior while working at an adjustable desk. The authors ingeniously utilized off-the-shelf components to design a low-cost sensor for multiple measures while validating each component for the user’s specifically intended actions. Although such off-the-shelf components are less expensive and relatively easy to install and interface with other hardware and software, in my biased view, they may sometimes fall short in terms of the life cycle, intended functionality, and reliability.

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当这本——今年的第三期——出版时，我希望我们能更接近解决大流行病，让我们再次安全地聚会。自去年以来，远程工作和在家学习呈指数级增长。我们中的一些人不得不寻找创造性的方式来布置我们的家，以适应我们的远程学习和工作。多亏了 COVID-19（2019 年冠状病毒病），我们被院士、人体工程学从业者、制造商和非专家关于各种在家工作方式的文献所淹没。这些信息包括坐站-站姿办公桌选项及其易于调节的功能，诸如为便于操作而在办公桌上进行控制和显示的功能，为休息提供被动和主动辅助的软件和硬件选项，等等。有各种各样的坐站两用办公桌可供选择，人体工程学领域继续探索在面对每个办公桌的可调节性时可靠地测量用户行为的方法。这是 Viggiani 等人的第一篇文章。带我们，因为来自加拿大的作者探索了如何量化坐立式办公桌的使用。他们使用市售的现成组件构建了一个低成本传感器，该传感器可以从地板测量桌面高度以及桌面与用户的距离和温度，以区分用户与办公桌附近的其他家具。为了验证传感器的高度可调性，作者对男性和女性进行了调查，以确定首选办公桌高度的范围，然后在他们的实验室中模拟了坐姿和站立办公桌高度的全范围。多项逻辑回归被用来对三种行为办公桌条件进行分类：站在、坐在和离开办公桌，而自举验证技术被用来评估传感器的操作性能。作者得出结论，廉价的台式传感器可以评估用户在可调节办公桌前工作时的行为。作者巧妙地利用现成的组件来设计用于多种测量的低成本传感器，同时针对用户的特定预期操作验证每个组件。尽管这种现成的组件更便宜，并且相对容易安装和与其他硬件和软件连接，但在我的偏见看来，它们有时可能会在生命周期、预期功能和可靠性方面达不到要求。并远离办公桌，同时使用自举验证技术来评估传感器的操作性能。作者得出结论，廉价的台式传感器可以评估用户在可调节办公桌前工作时的行为。作者巧妙地利用现成的组件来设计用于多种测量的低成本传感器，同时针对用户的特定预期操作验证每个组件。尽管这种现成的组件更便宜，并且相对容易安装和与其他硬件和软件连接，但在我的偏见看来，它们有时可能会在生命周期、预期功能和可靠性方面达不到要求。并远离办公桌，同时使用自举验证技术来评估传感器的操作性能。作者得出结论，廉价的台式传感器可以评估用户在可调节办公桌前工作时的行为。作者巧妙地利用现成的组件来设计用于多种测量的低成本传感器，同时针对用户的特定预期操作验证每个组件。尽管这种现成的组件更便宜，并且相对容易安装和与其他硬件和软件连接，但在我的偏见看来，它们有时可能会在生命周期、预期功能和可靠性方面达不到要求。作者得出结论，廉价的台式传感器可以评估用户在可调节办公桌前工作时的行为。作者巧妙地利用现成的组件来设计用于多种测量的低成本传感器，同时针对用户的特定预期操作验证每个组件。尽管这种现成的组件更便宜，并且相对容易安装和与其他硬件和软件连接，但在我的偏见看来，它们有时可能会在生命周期、预期功能和可靠性方面达不到要求。作者得出结论，廉价的台式传感器可以评估用户在可调节办公桌前工作时的行为。作者巧妙地利用现成的组件来设计用于多种测量的低成本传感器，同时针对用户的特定预期操作验证每个组件。尽管这种现成的组件更便宜，并且相对容易安装和与其他硬件和软件连接，但在我的偏见看来，它们有时可能会在生命周期、预期功能和可靠性方面达不到要求。