Human Factors
Ergonomics Research Lab
Explore the potential of ergonomics research with iMotions’ Human Factors solution, designed to deliver deep insights into human behavior. By integrating cutting-edge sensors and software, iMotions enables you to evaluate cognitive, environmental, and physical factors, helping you optimize workspaces, products, and environments for enhanced comfort, safety, and performance.
Introducing iMotions Ergonomics Research Lab
Physical Ergonomics
Cognitive Ergonomics
Environmental Ergonomics
Optimizing Physical
Well-being
Physical ergonomics examines the body’s interaction with its environment to prevent injury, strain, and fatigue. It optimizes factors like posture, manual handling, repetitive movements, and workspace layout, especially in physically demanding industries. Biosensors such as EMG, ECG, Respiration and other biosensors provide real-time data on strain and movement, enabling precise interventions. This helps researchers create ergonomic environments that enhance comfort, safety, and performance through optimized designs and processes.
How the Lab Works
- iMotions Lab enables efficient study setup, data collection, and analysis in a single platform to assess physical ergonomics factors like posture, movement, and task efficiency.
- By integrating hardware such as Eye trackers, EMG and ECG sensors, and cameras, iMotions provides synchronized data to analyze metrics like physical strain, mental fatigue, and overall ergonomics.
- iMotions integrates with survey platforms like Qualtrics, allowing researchers to gather subjective insights on comfort and strain alongside physiological and behavioral data.
Feature Highlights
iMotions’ platform empowers researchers to explore physical ergonomics through advanced biosensors and data integration. These features enhance every phase of ergonomics research, enabling iterative improvements in product design, workstation layout, and overall human performance by evaluating physical interactions, postures, and movements within the work environment.
Muscle strain
Measure muscle activity to asses physical strain caused by posture and movement. EMG (Electromyography) data reveals how different tasks and postures affect muscle exertion, enabling adjustments to reduce fatigue and improve user comfort.
Heart rate and behavior
Monitoring heart rate and variability assesses physical and emotional stress during interactions with ergonomic designs. ECG (Electrocardiography) data reveals how different environments and postures impact cardiovascular responses, enabling adjustments to improve user well-being and reduce fatigue.
Respiration
Detect onset of fatigue through breathing patterns and get insights into intensity of physical activity through tidal volume.
Video observation and scene view
Sync multiple video streams to get the full picture of body posture, environment and other factors with live view and post annotation tools.
APIs & Integrations
iMotion Lab is designed for multimodal research, making it easy to synchronize data from multiple modalities and sources. From native integrations of third-party hardware to built-in event API and LSL support the lab makes the possibilities for connecting devices and other software endless.
Data Visualization and Analysis
Simplify the interpretation of complex ergonomic data both for individual subjects and aggregated data with intuitive visualization tools. Whether analyzing physical strain, mental workload, or environmental stressors, these insights inform critical design improvements to enhance user health and safety.
Enhancing Usability and Reducing Errors
Cognitive ergonomics studies mental processes in human-system interactions, focusing on how perception, memory, reasoning, and decision-making are affected by system- and product design. The goal is to align systems and designs with human cognitive abilities, reducing errors and improving usability. Key areas include mental workload, attention, human-computer interaction, and error prevention. Biosensors like EEG, eye-tracking, and Facial Expression Analysis provide data on cognitive strain, enabling more intuitive and efficient designs. Cognitive ergonomics ensures systems are both functional and promote mental well-being and productivity across fields, and industries.
How the Lab Works
- iMotions Lab is the core platform for cognitive ergonomics research, offering seamless experiment design, data collection, and analysis within one software.
- Connecting external hardware and camera feeds, iMotions captures synchronized data on cognitive load, decision-making, and attention for a deeper understanding of human-computer interaction.
- iMotions integrates with Qualtrics and other survey tools, along with built-in features, to collect data on cognitive perceptions, mental workload, and task performance.
- Researchers can gather data in-person or remotely, allowing cognitive ergonomics studies in varied environments, even from participants’ own devices.
Feature Highlights
iMotions’ platform empowers researchers to explore cognitive ergonomics through advanced biosensors and seamless data integration. These tools provide valuable insights into mental workload, decision-making processes, and attention management, enabling researchers to improve product and workspace design for optimal cognitive efficiency.
Screen recordings and mouse events
iMotions Lab provide a holistic view of
Eye Tracking
Track user gaze patterns to understand how attention is distributed in physical environments, workspaces, or product interfaces. This data helps optimize layouts to reduce cognitive load, enhance usability, and improve physical interaction efficiency.
Measure cognitive load and engagement with EEG
Capture real-time brain activity to assess cognitive load during task performance in various ergonomic conditions. EEG data provides insight into mental workload, helping researchers understand how design changes—whether in physical workspaces or product interfaces—can reduce cognitive strain and enhance overall task efficiency.
ECG
ECG (Electrocardiography) data reveals how different interactions impact cardiovascular responses, enabling adjustments to improve user well-being and reduce fatigue.
Data Visualization and Analysis
Simplify the interpretation of complex ergonomic data with intuitive visualization tools. Whether analyzing physical strain, mental workload, or environmental stressors, these insights inform critical design improvements to enhance user health and safety.
Creating Healthier, More Productive Spaces
Environmental ergonomics optimizes the interaction between people and their surroundings to improve comfort, safety, and performance. It focuses on how factors like lighting, temperature, noise, and air quality affect physical and mental well-being. By designing environments that address these elements, it reduces stress, health risks, and discomfort while boosting mental well-being and productivity. Tools like eye-tracking glasses and EEG devices monitor physiological responses to environmental conditions, providing data for creating adaptable, sustainable, and user-friendly spaces that support overall health.
How the Environmental Ergonomics Lab Works
- iMotions Lab is the central platform for environmental ergonomics research, offering an all-in-one solution for study setup, data collection, and analysis through a single PC software.
- External hardware and camera feeds integrate with iMotions, enabling synchronized data collection to assess environmental conditions and their effects on human performance.
- iMotions integrates with survey platforms like Qualtrics and offers built-in survey tools, allowing researchers to gather feedback on environmental factors alongside physiological data.
Feature Highlights
iMotions’ platform empowers researchers to delve into environmental ergonomics by leveraging advanced biosensors and seamless data integration. These tools allow for precise evaluation of the impact of environmental factors such as lighting, temperature, noise, and air quality, facilitating iterative improvements to working and leisure environments, and product design to optimize comfort, safety, and productivity.
Eye Tracking
Track user gaze patterns to understand how attention is distributed in physical environments, workspaces, or product interfaces. This data helps optimize layouts to reduce cognitive load, enhance usability, and improve physical interaction efficiency.
Galvanic Skin Response/Electrodermal Activity
Measure physiological responses to environmental and physical stressors, such as temperature or workspace design. GSR data helps identify moments of heightened stress or discomfort, enabling researchers to optimize environments and products for improved user comfort and reduced cognitive strain.
ECG
ECG (Electrocardiography) data reveals how different environments impact cardiovascular responses, enabling adjustments to improve user well-being and reduce fatigue.
Think Aloud
Record and automatically transcribe everything being said with sentiment analysis and voice analysis, giving emotional context to spoken words.
Data Visualization and Analysis
Simplify the interpretation of complex ergonomic data with intuitive visualization tools. Whether analyzing physical strain, mental workload, or environmental stressors, these insights inform critical design improvements to enhance user health and safety.
For Measurable Improvements
The iMotions platform supports ergonomics research at every stage, enabling iterative improvements for workspaces, products, and environments.
Prototype Testing
Use iMotions to measure cognitive load, emotional responses, and physical interactions during early design stages, ensuring ergonomic efficiency from the outset.
Measure and optimize existing products
Capture objective physiological data to assess comfort, attention, and physical strain, optimizing user interactions with tools, spaces, or devices.
Performance and Safety Testing
Biometric data validates claims related to comfort, safety, and accessibility by assessing stress, relaxation, and cognitive load in various ergonomic scenarios.
Posture and Movement
Measure muscle activity to asses physical strain caused by posture and movement. EMG (Electromyography) data reveals how different tasks and postures affect muscle exertion, enabling adjustments to reduce fatigue and improve user comfort.
Regulatory Compliance
Use eye tracking and other sensors to ensure critical information in manuals or safety guides is visible, readable, and effectively understood, supporting ergonomic safety and compliance documentation.
A Versatile Platform
Supports numerous types of study setups
In-Lab Controlled
Environments
Online Testing
Virtual
Environments
Mobile Studies
Support and Training
All customers receive onboarding and training in using the software by our product experts.
Consultation & Demo before buying
We always make sure you are getting the right setup for your needs
Help center and Dedicated Support
Extensive help center with easy to follow articles and on-call product experts all days of the week.
Live Onboarding
All new users receive onboarding in using the software and hardware they have purchased
iMotions Academy
Become Certified in using iMotions in our 5 day intensive academy.
Our support staff works out of Copenhagen and Boston and have extensive experience using iMotions for research.
Pricing
All options include
- 1h Live Onboarding
- Support with 24h SLA
- Customer Support Manager
- Access to help articles, videos and demo studies
- Frequent software updates and improvements
Prices reflect costs for various lab setups, including all essentials. Customize to fit your budget and needs.
Shown prices are for licenses.
Physical Ergonomics Lab
Measure physical wellbeing and muscle activation to prevent injuries and improve comfort.
- Muscle activation
- Heart metrics
- Respiration metrics
Package includes
CoreEMGECGRespiration