Analysis of behavioral topography of workers working with industrial robots

Abstract

As technology advances rapidly nowadays, integrated production systems in manufacturing and/or construction sites so on and collaborative robots have been introduced to the field, and work styles have undergone major changes. Such introduction of new technologies to worksites such as robots and ICT devices expects to advantage improvement of work efficiency, elimination of unnecessary movements, and reduction of stress of workers are mentioned. However, the evaluations for feeling such as comfortability, workload, safety feeling and happiness of workers working at work sites introducing new technologies, so far are quite limited and the most are subjective using questionnaires. Now we have been trying to propose a systematic and scientific procedure of measurement and evaluation of safety behavior analysis expressing "two kinds" of well-being, Subjective well-being and Psychological well-being of workers at work from the standpoint of occupational safety. In this presentation, we show the results of recent experiments and outline the importance of 1) dividing well-being into two kinds and 2) evaluating well-being with objective indicators.