Research

ONE Lab studies how much force people can produce and how that capability varies across workers, postures, and task conditions. This research examines factors such as hand location, reach, force direction, joint posture, handedness, body size, body composition, balance, and other individual characteristics.

The goal is to improve how acceptable physical demands are estimated during workplace and product design. By developing and validating better strength-prediction methods, this work helps ergonomists and engineers compare task demands with realistic human capabilities before work systems are implemented.

ONE Lab studies how fatigue develops, how people recover, and how work patterns change physical capacity over time. This research spans fundamental neuromuscular mechanisms through to applied questions involving repetition, effort duration, duty cycle, task sequence, work-rest schedules, job rotation, and ergonomics exposure thresholds.

The goal is to improve the prediction and prevention of excessive fatigue during occupational work. By understanding how task demands and worker characteristics influence fatigue and recovery, this research can support more realistic exposure limits and better decisions about pacing, task design, and recovery opportunities.

ONE Lab develops and evaluates technologies that allow physical work to be studied before workplaces, products, or tasks are fully implemented. This research includes digital human modelling, virtual reality, optical and wearable motion capture, markerless tracking, hand and finger tracking, eye tracking, biomechanical modelling, and other emerging assessment methods.

The lab is particularly interested in whether virtual and sensor-based approaches accurately represent human posture, movement, physical demands, attention, and behaviour. The focus is not simply on adopting new technology, but on determining when it produces valid, practical, and actionable ergonomics information.

ONE Lab is expanding its ability to study physical work directly in occupational environments. This research uses wearable and mobile technologies to measure worker posture, movement, muscle activity, hand use, external forces, and task exposure during real work.

The goal is to connect controlled laboratory research with the complexity of workplace conditions. Field studies can help determine whether existing ergonomics tools accurately represent real exposures, identify where current assessment methods require improvement, and generate stronger evidence for musculoskeletal injury prevention.

ONE Lab conducts applied research to understand physical work demands, evaluate interventions, and test products or methods presented as ergonomic. Projects may involve manufacturing, healthcare, office work, manual material handling, overhead work, assistive technologies, product design, and emerging workplace systems.

The goal is to produce independent evidence that supports practical decisions by workers, ergonomists, engineers, designers, and organizations. This work translates laboratory and modelling research into recommendations that can improve workplace design, reduce physical demands, and support musculoskeletal injury prevention.