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The purpose of this research was to evaluate the maximum acceptable weight of carrying (MAWC) while carrying baby with two different designs of baby carriers. Ten males and ten females with average age of 24 years old participated in the experiment. Each subject completed four treatment combinations (2 carrying types (front and back) and 2 carrying time (1-h and 4-h) with two baby carriers. The dependent measures included MAWC, percentage of maximum heart rate (%HR) and Borg’s CR-10 scale. The ANOVA results showed significant gender, baby carrier, carrying type, and carrying time effect on MAWC (p < 0.05). The %HR of 1-h carrying time was significant higher than that of the 4-h carrying time. For Borg’s CR-10 scale, significant differences were found in waist, and abdomen under different gender, baby carrier and carrying type. The findings of this study provide useful information for baby carriers design and carrying methods selection.
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Chen, TH., Kao, YY., Wang, MJ.J. (2019). The Psychophysical Evaluations of Baby Carriers. In: Goonetilleke, R., Karwowski, W. (eds) Advances in Physical Ergonomics & Human Factors. AHFE 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 789. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94484-5_25
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