The proper design of personal load carriage systems may be critical not only for soldier comfort, but also for soldier mobility and performance on the battlefield. Evaluation of soldier personal load carriage systems typically involves the conduct of human-based lab and field trials that can be both time-consuming and costly to conduct. Field testing usually requires multiple system prototypes of a given design iteration, with their development cost often limiting ...
Human Factors Engineering (HFE) is contributing significantly to Canadian soldier protective clothing and personal equipment development and acquisition. From the conduct of user surveys and studies of baseline system performance, through the execution of controlled trials with representative users in the laboratory or the field HFE is now impacting on virtually every stage of the Canadian soldier system development and acquisition cycle, This is especially the case for the development ...
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