A Case Study Demonstrating the Utility of Surveillance Video in Assessing Gait Dynamics and Behavior During a Slip and Fall

Author(s):  
Leah S. Hartman ◽  
Stephanie A. Whetsel Borzendowski ◽  
Alan O. Campbell

As the use of surveillance video at commercial properties becomes more prevalent, it is more likely an incident involving a personal injury will be captured on film. This provides a unique opportunity for Human Factors practitioners involved in forensic investigations to analyze the behavior of the individual prior to, during, and after the event in question. It also provides an opportunity to gather unique and objective data. The present work describes a case study of a slip and fall where surveillance video and onsite measurements were combined and analyzed to quantify a plaintiff’s gait pattern. Using this type of analysis, we were able to determine that the plaintiff was likely aware that the floor was slippery and adjusted her gait and behavior prior to the slip and fall incident.

Author(s):  
Joseph Cohen ◽  
H. Harvey Cohen

The increased need for physical security and rapid technological developments has created opportunities for enhancing the validity of expert opinions offered in the courtroom by human factors/ergonomics professionals. Digital surveillance equipment typically yields more information from several perspectives as well as affords more control than ‘old’ technologies such as closed-circuit television, video cassette recorders, and multiplexers. This poster illustrates three case examples in which human factors/ergonomics experts used digital surveillance video as part of forensic analyses on cases retained by attorneys representing both plaintiffs and defendants. The first case is a rear-end collision on a freeway between a moving bus and a stopped pickup truck. The second is a collision between a moving bus and falling pedestrian, while the third is a more common slip-and-fall incident in a retail grocery store. The implications of improved digital surveillance video for the practice of forensics human factors/ergonomics are discussed.


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 4851-4855

The Knowledge representation is the extensively known and applied method for scrutinizing huge set of database in order to spring innovative information. Data extraction techniques are almost used in every field to retrieve the hidden information in order to reduce real world complexity. In this paper, the issues involved in traffic consequences are analyzed. The semantic net representation and inferences are used to highlight the density associated with each object. The characterized knowledge is taken to derive finest assertions using AND-OR-graphs. The assertions improve the intelligibility in accepting the prediction of traffic occurrence under different age group of people. The knowledge depiction techniques demonstrate the problem from objected oriented viewpoint which outlines the state and behavior of a thing directly related with the stated goal. Objectives are branded into sub goals based on the functionality allied within the object. The mandatory hypothesis needs to be framed and verified once the individual task is applied. In this paper, a case study of Traffic Pattern is gauged with the hazards associated with it.


2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Abdul Aziz Azari

Introduction: Helplessness is a condition in which the individual feels unable to endure all painful and uncomfortable things that support himself. In people with post-Covid-19, the helplessness they experience tends to be the signs and symptoms they experience when suffering from Covid-19. This study aims to describe the helplessness of Covid-19 patients as long as they are attacked by Covid-19. Methods: This study used a qualitative research design with a case study approach. Participants in the study were 1 person with purposive sampling data collection technique. Data analysis using Colaizzi technique. Results: Based on the research conducted, there were several manifestations of helplessness presented by Covid-19 sufferers, emotional, motivational and behavioral symptoms; where it all decreases and affects a person's depression. Discussion: The experience of suffering from Covid-19 provides traumatic experiences for sufferers, one of which is helplessness during the Covid-19 treatment period, and this results in changes in the emotional, cognitive, and behavior of someone who has suffered from Covid-19. Keywords: helplessness, Covid-19, psychological, depression.


Author(s):  
Stephanie A. Whetsel Borzendowski ◽  
Leah S. Hartman

Forensic human factors analyses of personal injuries, including collisions, can be challenging when there is either limited evidence available and/or conflicting accounts of the events leading up to an incident. Gathering objective data under conditions representative of the incident in question can assist human factors practitioners in assessing the plausibility of certain facts and events, particularly in the aforementioned scenarios. The present work is part of the preliminary investigation of a collision in which little information was available about the incident. Data were gathered from nine participants to assist in determining a reasonable timeline of events leading up to impact between a disabled vehicle and a tractor trailer. The importance of reliance on such objective data as part of forensic analyses is discussed.


Author(s):  
Dmitry I. Ivanov ◽  

The purpose of the article is to study the conceptual-semantic core of the film construct “The Cold Summer of 1953” carried out as part of the author's metadisciplinary methodology – the theory of modeling cognitive-pragmatic programs (CPP). CPP is a supporting system of cognitive-pragmatic sets that can have both a personal and a superpersonal character. The article solves the problems of deciphering the multidimensional impact of the dominant “superpersonal” CPP on the consciousness and behavior of its carriers, since the basic party-ideological CPP is deeply rooted in the minds of both government officials and political prisoners; moreover, the power system also turns the representatives of criminal environment into the carriers of a specific criminal projection of the basic CPP. The main results of the study: film construct unfolds before us a panorama of the mythological recoding of the consciousness of CPP carriers, while the ethical category of duty, which is fundamental for self-identification of a person, suffers the most profound recoding. “The Duty” here is a destructive and manipulative instrument for controlling the CPP over the consciousness of its carriers. Confident that he decides by himself who he is (level of self-identification), what is his goal (level of goal-setting) and what is the path to it (level of modeling of an instrumental-operational strategy), the CPP carrier does not / fully does not recognize the substitution. In fact, the CPP controls it: a) the goal of the program is identified with the goal of the CPP carrier; b) the CPP carrier does not think of itself separately from the program; c) the destructive strategy of the CPP is perceived by the subject as its own. Studying the three basic regimes of the destructive activity of the ideological CPP, we come to the following conclusions: 1) In the “conditional passivity” mode of the CPP, its carrier retains a significant degree of internal freedom, not allowing the program to exercise full control. 2) The “Active-passive” mode of the CPP makes a substitution: the program carrier, being in the full sense of his personal freedom, becomes a “machine of generation” of senseless pseudo-ideologized conflict situations and a “machine of reproduction” of “alien” automated, reflex-impulse reactions. 3) Under the conditions of the “active-destructive” CPP regime, the “pseudodialogue” is no longer entered by “living” people, but by different options (“tools”, “mechanisms”) of the dominant program. That is why the “dialogue” of programs turns into an endless, automated, one-sided, impersonal process of “exchanging” orders.


1992 ◽  
Vol 36 (8) ◽  
pp. 596-597
Author(s):  
Richard J. Hornick ◽  
Robert O. Besco ◽  
James L. Harris ◽  
Kenneth R. Laughery ◽  
Mark S. Sanders

Attorneys are increasingly using human factors practitioners to perform analyses and to testify as expert witnesses in product liability and personal injury cases. Previous panels and symposia have addressed a variety of technical considerations and applications in those arenas. However, there are many practical challenges in providing such services to the legal community in an effective and personally satisfying manner. This panel is focused on the practical matters faced by the individual human factors consultant providing services to the legal community. The panel is intended to explore different experiential perspectives regarding effective procedures for dealing with the unique demands of the litigation field.


1973 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Lynch ◽  
Annette Tobin

This paper presents the procedures developed and used in the individual treatment programs for a group of preschool, postrubella, hearing-impaired children. A case study illustrates the systematic fashion in which the clinician plans programs for each child on the basis of the child’s progress at any given time during the program. The clinician’s decisions are discussed relevant to (1) the choice of a mode(s) for the child and the teacher, (2) the basis for selecting specific target behaviors, (3) the progress of each program, and (4) the implications for future programming.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Akhmad Khoyrun Najakh ◽  
Dwiwiyati Astogini ◽  
Sri Martini

The purpose of this study was to analyze the influence of attitudes on the intention to choose Islamic banks, to analyze the effect of subjective norm on the intention to choose Islamic banks. to analyze the effect of the control behavior of the intention to choose the Islamic banks, to analyze the moderating influence of religiosity on the relationship attitudes, subjective norms and behavioral control of the intention to choose the Islamic banks . The method used is a survey with a sampling technique used purposive sampling with a sample size of this study was 100 respondents . Further analysis tools used in this study is multiple regression analysis using SPSS 16.0 software . Based on this study it can be concluded that the attitude does not affect to the intention of choose Bank BRISyariah. Subjective norm positive effect on intention choose Bank BRISyariah. Control behavior does not affect to the intention choose Bank BRISyariah. Relationship between Attitudes, Subjective Norms and Behavior Control with the intention to select Bank BRISyariah not moderated by religiosity.Based on these conclusions can be said that the Bank BRISyariah should improve understanding related to the subjective norm in order to increase the number of customers who use the services of Islamic Banking . Further research is recommended in order to follow up and develop this research to further explore the independent and dependent variables continued before and after behavioral intention or intention to perform a specific action .


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