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List of works by Svend Erik Mathiassen

A Swedish industrial research program 'Co-operative for Optimization of Industrial Production Systems Regarding Productivity and Ergonomics' (COPE)

scientific article published on 01 September 1999

A comparison of standard and compositional data analysis in studies addressing group differences in sedentary behavior and physical activity.

scientific article published on 15 June 2018

A comparison of two strategies for building an exposure prediction model

journal article published in 2016

A practical guidance for assessments of sedentary behavior at work: A PEROSH initiative.

scientific article published on 11 April 2017

A questionnaire measuring staff perceptions of Lean adoption in healthcare: development and psychometric testing.

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A research framework for the development and implementation of interventions preventing work-related musculoskeletal disorders

scientific article published on 25 September 2017

Accuracy and precision of variance components in occupational posture recordings: a simulation study of different data collection strategies

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Alternations between physical and cognitive tasks in repetitive work - effect of cognitive task difficulty on fatigue development in women

scientific article published on 14 May 2019

An evaluation of methods assessing the physical demands of manual lifting in scaffolding

scientific article published on 20 January 2005

An integrated analysis of ergonomics and time consumption in Swedish 'craft-type' car disassembly.

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Are temporal patterns of sitting associated with obesity among blue-collar workers? A cross sectional study using accelerometers

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Assessment of physical work load in epidemiologic studies: concepts, issues and operational considerations

scientific article published on June 1994

Assessment of time patterns of activity and rest in full-shift recordings of trapezius muscle activity - effects of the data processing procedure.

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Association between objectively measured sitting time and neck-shoulder pain among blue-collar workers

scientific article published on 13 February 2015

Between- and within-subject variance of motor variability metrics in females performing repetitive upper-extremity precision work

scientific article published on 31 October 2014

Bias and imprecision in posture percentile variables estimated from short exposure samples.

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Bias and power in group-based epidemiologic studies of low-back pain exposure and outcome--effects of study size and exposure measurement efforts

scientific article published on 27 November 2014

Calibration of Self-Reported Time Spent Sitting, Standing and Walking among Office Workers: A Compositional Data Analysis

scientific article published on 27 August 2019

Can Childcare Work Be Designed to Promote High Intensity Physical Activity for Improved Fitness and Health? A Proof of Concept Study of the Goldilocks Principle

scientific article published on 12 October 2020

Can a metric combining arm elevation and trapezius muscle activity predict neck/shoulder pain? A prospective cohort study in construction and healthcare

scientific article published on 05 December 2020

Can childcare work be designed to promote moderate and vigorous physical activity, cardiorespiratory fitness and health? Study protocol for the Goldilocks-childcare randomised controlled trial

scientific article published on 17 February 2020

Can cognitive activities during breaks in repetitive manual work accelerate recovery from fatigue? A controlled experiment

scientific article published on 6 November 2014

Can occupational guidelines for work-rest schedules be based on endurance time data?

scientific article published on March 1, 1992

Capturing the pattern of physical activity and sedentary behavior: exposure variation analysis of accelerometer data

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Changes in the degree of motor variability associated with experimental and chronic neck-shoulder pain during a standardised repetitive arm movement

scientific article published on 20 November 2007

Cluster-based exposure variation analysis

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Combined Effects of Physical Behavior Compositions and Psychosocial Resources on Perceived Exertion Among Eldercare Workers

scientific article published on 30 July 2020

Comparison of Sedentary Behaviors in Office Workers Using Sit-Stand Tables With and Without Semiautomated Position Changes.

scientific article published in March 2017

Concurrent cognitive task may improve motor work performance and reduce muscle fatigue.

scientific article published in January 2012

Consistency of Sedentary Behavior Patterns among Office Workers with Long-Term Access to Sit-Stand Workstations

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Consistent individual motor variability traits demonstrated by females performing a long-cycle assembly task under conditions differing in temporal organisation

scientific article published on 21 January 2020

Correction of bias in self-reported sitting time among office workers - a study based on compositional data analysis

scientific article published on 23 April 2019

Correctness of Self-Reported Task Durations: A Systematic Review

scientific article published on 01 December 2017

Cost efficiency comparison of four video-based techniques for assessing upper arm postures

scientific article published in January 2012

Cost-efficient assessment of biomechanical exposure in occupational groups, exemplified by posture observation and inclinometry

scientific article published on 27 January 2014

Cost-efficient design of occupational exposure assessment strategies--a review.

scientific article published on 06 October 2010

Cost-efficient measurement strategies for posture observations based on video recordings

scientific article published on 18 January 2013

Cost-efficient observation of working postures from video recordings--more videos, more observers or more views per observer?

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Daily Shoulder Pain Among Flight Baggage Handlers and its Association With Work Tasks and Upper Arm Postures on the Same Day

scientific article published on 01 November 2017

Data collection costs in industrial environments for three occupational posture exposure assessment methods.

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Data processing costs for three posture assessment methods

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Differences between work and leisure in temporal patterns of objectively measured physical activity among blue-collar workers

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Differences in motor variability among individuals performing a standardized short-cycle manual task.

scientific article published on 4 November 2016

Differences in muscle load between computer and non-computer work among office workers

scientific article published on 01 December 2009

Digging deeper into the assessment of upper arm elevation angles using standard inclinometry

scientific article published on 19 May 2015

Diversity and variation in biomechanical exposure: what is it, and why would we like to know?

scientific article published on 9 June 2006

Diversity of tasks and information technologies used by office workers at and away from work

scientific article published on November 2011

Effects of Time in Sitting and Standing on Pleasantness, Acceptability, Fatigue, and Pain When Using a Sit-Stand Desk: An Experiment on Overweight and Normal-Weight Subjects

scientific article published on 02 November 2020

Effects of concurrent physical and cognitive demands on arm movement kinematics in a repetitive upper-extremity precision task.

scientific article published on 27 May 2015

Effects of concurrent physical and cognitive demands on muscle activity and heart rate variability in a repetitive upper-extremity precision task.

scientific article published on 24 September 2015

Efficient assessment of exposure to manual lifting using company data

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Efficient one-day sampling of mechanical job exposure data--a study based on upper trapezius activity in cleaners and office workers

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Electromyographic activity in the shoulder-neck region according to arm position and glenohumeral torque

scientific article published on 01 January 1990

Equal health at work? Protocol for an observational study of work organisation, workload and musculoskeletal complaints among women and men in grocery retail

scientific article published on 13 January 2020

Ergonomic effects of a management-based rationalization in assembly work - a case study

scientific article published on 01 April 1996

Erratum to "Uncertainty in monetary cost estimates for assessing working postures using inclinometry, observation or self-report" [Appl. Ergon. 71C (2018) 73-77]

scientific article published on 20 October 2018

Erratum to: Temporal patterns of sitting at work are associated with neck-shoulder pain in blue-collar workers: a cross-sectional analysis of accelerometer data in the DPHACTO study.

scientific article published on 16 February 2017

Explicit and implicit theories of change when designing and implementing preventive ergonomics interventions--a systematic literature review

scientific article published on 14 March 2011

Expo[not-so]sure... reflections on a tricky issue in musculoskeletal research

scientific article published on 01 June 2004

Full-Shift Trunk and Upper Arm Postures and Movements Among Aircraft Baggage Handlers.

scientific article published on 14 July 2016

Gender differences in fatigability and muscle activity responses to a short-cycle repetitive task

scientific article published on 14 October 2016

Group-based measurement strategies in exposure assessment explored by bootstrapping

scientific article published on 01 April 2001

ITKids part I: children's occupations and use of information and communication technologies

scientific article published in January 2011

ITKids part II: variation of postures and muscle activity in children using different information and communication technologies.

scientific article published in January 2011

Increased physical work loads in modern work--a necessity for better health and performance?

scientific article published on 01 October 2009

Influence of Work Pace on Upper Extremity Kinematics and Muscle Activity in a Short-Cycle Repetitive Pick-and-Place Task

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Influence of angular velocity and movement frequency on development of fatigue in repeated isokinetic knee extensions

scientific article published on 01 January 1989

Influence of three principles of pacing on the temporal organisation of work during cyclic assembly and disassembly tasks.

scientific article published in November 2010

Interventions to reduce sedentary behavior and increase physical activity during productive work: a systematic review.

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Is objectively measured sitting at work associated with low-back pain? A cross sectional study in the DPhacto cohort

scientific article published on 27 October 2017

Is prolonged sitting at work associated with the time course of neck-shoulder pain? A prospective study in Danish blue-collar workers.

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Is self-reported time spent sedentary and in physical activity differentially biased by age, gender, body mass index, and low-back pain?

scientific article published on 29 November 2017

Is what you see what you get? Standard inclinometry of set upper arm elevation angles.

scientific article published on 27 October 2014

Job enlargement and mechanical exposure variability in cyclic assembly work

scientific article published in January 2004

Lean maturity and quality in primary care

scientific article published on 31 January 2019

Long-Term Monitoring of Physical Behavior Reveals Different Cardiac Responses to Physical Activity among Subjects with and without Chronic Neck Pain

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Measurement strategy and statistical power in studies assessing gait stability and variability in older adults

scientific article published on 7 June 2015

Methodological variance associated with normalization of occupational upper trapezius EMG using sub-maximal reference contractions

scientific article published on 21 December 2007

Motor control and cardiovascular responses during isoelectric contractions of the upper trapezius muscle: evidence for individual adaptation strategies

scientific article published on 01 January 1997

Motor variability in occupational health and performance

scientific article published on September 4, 2012

Motor variability--an important issue in occupational life

scientific article published on January 2012

Muscle contraction force and fatigue: effects on mismatch negativity

scientific article published on 01 December 2010

Musculoskeletal health and work ability in physically demanding occupations: study protocol for a prospective field study on construction and health care workers

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Neck postures in air traffic controllers with and without neck/shoulder disorders.

scientific article published on 12 June 2007

Nonlinear metrics assessing motor variability in a standardized pipetting task: Between- and within-subject variance components

scientific article published on 29 January 2015

Normalization of surface EMG amplitude from the upper trapezius muscle in ergonomic studies - A review

scientific article published on December 1995

Normalization of upper trapezius EMG amplitude in ergonomic studies

scientific article published on 01 December 1995

Normalizing upper trapezius EMG amplitude: Comparison of different procedures.

scientific article published on December 1995

Normalizing upper trapezius EMG amplitude: Comparison of ramp and constant force procedures.

scientific article published in December 1995

Observer performance in estimating upper arm elevation angles under ideal viewing conditions when assisted by posture matching software

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Observer reliability of industrial activity analysis based on video recordings

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Observer variability in posture assessment from video recordings: The effect of partly visible periods.

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Occupational and Individual Determinants of Work-life Balance among Office Workers with Flexible Work Arrangements

scientific article published on 22 February 2020

On the evolution of task-based analysis of manual materials handling, and its applicability in contemporary ergonomics.

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Optimizing cost-efficiency in mean exposure assessment--cost functions reconsidered

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Participative development of packages in the food industry--evaluation of ergonomics and productivity by objective measurements

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Partly visible periods in posture observation from video: prevalence and effect on summary estimates of postures in the job.

scientific article published on 28 February 2015

Patterning of children's sedentary time at and away from school

scientific article published in January 2013

Physiological comparison of three interventions in light assembly work: reduced work pace, increased break allowance and shortened working days

scientific article published on 01 January 1996

Physiological effects of micropauses in isometric handgrip exercise

scientific article published on 01 January 1991

Posture variation among office workers when using different information and communication technologies at work and away from work.

scientific article published on 12 August 2014

Precision based guidelines for sub-maximal normalisation task selection for trunk extensor EMG.

scientific article published on 20 July 2017

Precision of measurements of physical workload during standardised manual handling. Part I: surface electromyography of m. trapezius, m. infraspinatus and the forearm extensors.

scientific article published in August 2004

Precision of measurements of physical workload during standardised manual handling. Part II: Inclinometry of head, upper back, neck and upper arms

scientific article published on 18 August 2005

Predicting Directly Measured Trunk and Upper Arm Postures in Paper Mill Work From Administrative Data, Workers' Ratings and Posture Observations

scientific article published on 01 March 2017

Prediction of objectively measured physical activity and sedentariness among blue-collar workers using survey questionnaires

scientific article published on 12 April 2016

Production system design elements influencing productivity and ergonomics

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Promoting health and physical capacity during productive work: the Goldilocks Principle

scientific article published on 18 July 2018

Psychosocial Work Factors and Musculoskeletal Pain: A Cross-Sectional Study among Swedish Flight Baggage Handlers

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Quantifying variation in physical load using exposure-vs-time data

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Reliability and criterion validity of an observation protocol for working technique assessments in cash register work

scientific article published on 5 November 2015

Reliability of near-infrared spectroscopy for measuring forearm and shoulder oxygenation in healthy males and females.

scientific article published on 23 November 2011

Sedentary and Physical Activity Behavior in "Blue-Collar" Workers: A Systematic Review of Accelerometer Studies

scientific article published on 29 August 2019

Short- and long-term reliability of heart rate variability indices during repetitive low-force work

scientific article published on 4 December 2014

Shoulder-arm muscle load and performance during control operation in forestry machines. Effects of changing to a new arm rest, lever and boom control system

scientific article published on 01 April 1997

Sitting patterns after relocation to activity-based offices: A controlled study of a natural intervention.

scientific article published on 30 November 2017

Sitting, standing and moving during work and leisure among male and female office workers of different age: a compositional data analysis

scientific article published on 01 June 2020

Sit–stand desks in call centres: Associations of use and ergonomics awareness with sedentary behavior

scientific article published on 04 December 2012

Staff perception of Lean, care-giving, thriving and exhaustion: a longitudinal study in primary care

scientific article published on 09 September 2019

Statistical performance of observational work sampling for assessment of categorical exposure variables: a simulation approach illustrated using PATH data.

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Statistical power and measurement allocation in ergonomic intervention studies assessing upper trapezius EMG amplitude. A case study of assembly work

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Statistical precision of categorical PATH observations of trunk posture

scientific article published on January 1, 2012

Stress-Related Responses to Alternations between Repetitive Physical Work and Cognitive Tasks of Different Difficulties

scientific article published on 17 November 2020

Systematic evaluation of observational methods assessing biomechanical exposures at work.

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Systematic review of biochemical biomarkers for neck and upper-extremity musculoskeletal disorders.

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Systematic review of quantitative imaging biomarkers for neck and shoulder musculoskeletal disorders.

scientific article published on 12 September 2017

Task based exposure assessment in ergonomic epidemiology: a study of upper arm elevation in the jobs of machinists, car mechanics, and house painters.

scientific article published on January 2005

Task-based estimation of mechanical job exposure in occupational groups.

scientific article published in April 2005

Temporal patterns of sitting at work are associated with neck-shoulder pain in blue-collar workers: a cross-sectional analysis of accelerometer data in the DPHACTO study

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Temporal strategy and performance during a fatiguing short-cycle repetitive task

scientific article published on 07 June 2012

The 'Goldilocks Principle': designing physical activity at work to be 'just right' for promoting health.

scientific article published on 29 June 2017

The ability of limited exposure sampling to detect effects of interventions that reduce the occurrence of pronounced trunk inclination

journal article published in 2010

The ability of non-computer tasks to increase biomechanical exposure variability in computer-intensive office work

scientific article published on 27 October 2014

The combined influence of task accuracy and pace on motor variability in a standardised repetitive precision task

scientific article published on 16 February 2015

The effect of the presence and characteristics of an outlying group on exposure-outcome associations

scientific article published on 7 October 2014

The effect of work pace on workload, motor variability and fatigue during simulated light assembly work

scientific article published on 01 February 2011

The influence of exercise/rest schedule on the physiological and psychophysical response to isometric shoulder-neck exercise

scientific article published on 01 January 1993

The size and structure of arm movement variability decreased with work pace in a standardised repetitive precision task.

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The size of cycle-to-cycle variability in biomechanical exposure among butchers performing a standardised cutting task

scientific article published in July 2008

The statistical confidence of load estimates based on ramp calibration of upper trapezius EMG

scientific article published on 01 March 1996

The trade-off between meticulousness and methodological variance in normalization of low back EMG.

scientific article published in January 2012

Theoretical and empirical efficiency of sampling strategies for estimating upper arm elevation

scientific article published on May 2011

Time--a key issue for musculoskeletal health and manufacturing

scientific article published on 26 March 2007

Time-Based Data in Occupational Studies: The Whys, the Hows, and Some Remaining Challenges in Compositional Data Analysis (CoDA)

scientific article published on 01 July 2020

Trapezius muscle activity variation during computer work performed by individuals with and without neck-shoulder pain

journal article published in 2019

Trunk and upper arm postures in paper mill work

scientific article published on 17 December 2018

Uncertainty in monetary cost estimates for assessing working postures using inclinometry, observation or self-report

scientific article published on 26 April 2018

Upper arm postures and movements in female hairdressers across four full working days

scientific article published on 12 April 2010

Variability in mechanical exposure within and between individuals performing a highly constrained industrial work task

scientific article published in June 2003

Variability in spatio-temporal pattern of trapezius activity and coordination of hand-arm muscles during a sustained repetitive dynamic task.

scientific article published on 14 October 2016

Variation at work: alternations between physically and mentally demanding tasks in blue-collar occupations

scientific article published on 23 January 2017

Variation between seated and standing/walking postures among male and female call centre operators

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Variation in muscle activity among office workers when using different information technologies at work and away from work

scientific article published in October 2013

Variation in upper extremity, neck and trunk postures when performing computer work at a sit-stand station

scientific article published on 03 October 2018

Variation of force amplitude and its effects on local fatigue

scientific article published on 10 March 2012

Video-based ergonomic job analysis: a practitioner's guide

journal article published in 2006

What Determines Step-Rate at Work? An Investigation of Factors at the Shift, Worker, Ward, and Nursing Home Levels in Eldercare

scientific article published on 01 October 2021

Work above shoulder level and degenerative alterations of the rotator cuff tendons: a magnetic resonance imaging study.

scientific article published on October 2004

Work related shoulder disorders: quantitative exposure-response relations with reference to arm posture

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