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Development of Handles for Liquid Container through the Evaluation of User Preferences  

Jung, Hwa-Shik (Department of Industrial Engineering, Dongshin University)
Jung, Hyung-Shik (Division of Business Administration, Chosun University)
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IE interfaces / v.16, no.4, 2003 , pp. 515-525 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this study, a prototype liquid container combined with auxiliary handles was designed to increase the safety of manual handling and protect from contamination of hands of people who use these containers. Likert summated rating method as well as pairwise ranking test was applied to evaluate the user preferences for provided handles of the container under the conditions of different shapes and positions. The results show that the subjects preferred perpendicular orientation of the handle on the top of the liquid container while carrying the containers and the crosswise position of the handle at the side of the container while pouring the liquid were preferred. A prototype liquid container with provided auxiliary handles was developed based on the results of evaluation. It is thus recommended that the liquid container provide extra handles to reduce the musculoskeletal stress and in turn to increase the user satisfaction.
Keywords
liquid container handles; user preferences; manual materials handling;
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