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Joel Cort
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Latest papers
An In-Field Evaluation of Forearm Muscle Activity During a Manual Weld Task While Using a Soft Hand Exoskeleton.
IISE transactions on occupational ergonomics and human factors · 2026 · senior author
Effects of the IronHand® Soft Exoskeleton on Forearm Muscle Activity During in Field Automotive Assembly Tasks.
IISE transactions on occupational ergonomics and human factors · 2024 · senior author
Distracted worker: Using pupil size and blink rate to detect cognitive load during manufacturing tasks.
Applied ergonomics · 2023
Latest funding
- $25,000
Translating Atlas Copco's Cognitive Ergonomics Toolkit For Remote Cognitive Load Assessments
SSHRC · 2021 · Co-investigator
- $220,029
Ergonomics evaluation of right angle power tools
NSERC · 2013 · Principal investigator
- $134,500
University of Windsor Occupational Biomechanics Research Facility
ONTARIO · 2013 · Principal investigator
7 publications.
An In-Field Evaluation of Forearm Muscle Activity During a Manual Weld Task While Using a Soft Hand Exoskeleton.
Cousins D, Porto R, Holmes M, Cort J
Effects of the IronHand® Soft Exoskeleton on Forearm Muscle Activity During in Field Automotive Assembly Tasks.
Cousins D, Porto R, Bigelo A, Fox R, Libs B, Holmes M, Cort J
Distracted worker: Using pupil size and blink rate to detect cognitive load during manufacturing tasks.
Biondi FN, Saberi B, Graf F, Cort J, Pillai P, Balasingam B
On the potential of pupil size as a metric of physical fatigue during a repeated handle push/pull task
Francesco N. Biondi, Frida Graf, Joel A. Cort
Physical capability limits for right-angle power tool operation.
Valencia J, Eaton L, Smets M, Brazier J, Racco P, Stephens A, Malone G, Porto R, Cort J
A survey of right-angle power tool use in Canadian automotive assembly plants.
Lidstone J, Malone G, Porto R, Stephens A, Smets M, Banning M, Cort J
Overloaded and at Work: Investigating the Effect of Cognitive Workload on Assembly Task Performance
Francesco N. Biondi, Angela Cacanindin, Caitlyn Douglas, Joel A. Cort
Translating Atlas Copco's Cognitive Ergonomics Toolkit For Remote Cognitive Load Assessments
Principal investigators: Biondi, Francesco
Keywords: cognitive load; cognitive ergonomics; COVID-19; manufacturing assessment; product design; safety
Ergonomics evaluation of right angle power tools
Principal investigators: Cort, Joel
University of Windsor Occupational Biomechanics Research Facility
Principal investigators: Cort, Joel
University of Windsor Occupational Biomechanics Research Facility
Principal investigators: Cort, Joel
Keywords: Ergonomics, Motion Capture, Virtual Work Simulations, Electromyography, Biomechanical Modelling, Musculosketal Injury
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Balakumar Balasingam and Francesco Biondi: 15 shared papers
- Francesco Biondi and Joel Cort: 3 shared papers
- Michael Holmes and Joel Cort: 2 shared papers
- Balakumar Balasingam and Joel Cort: 1 shared paper
- Department of Kinesiology
- Kinesiology
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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