Occupational Injury Prevention
Postural Control & Fall Prevention
Postural Control & Fall Prevention
Portable Slip-Testing Device for Measuring Shoe-Floor Coefficient of Friction
Slips and fall accidents are an enormous human health problem that affect people across different age spectrums. This study, funded by the National Institute on Aging, developed portable tribometers for testing footwear traction performance. These devices are assessed for usability, validity, repeatability, and reproducibility. The developed device was also prospectively validated to determine its ability to predict slipping events.
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Publications
Peer-Reviewed Article
2024
Applied Ergonomics
Prospective validity assessment of a friction prediction model based on tread outsole features of slip-resistant shoes
Peer-Reviewed Article
2023
Journal of Safety Research
Validation of a portable shoe tread scanner to predict slip risk
Peer-Reviewed Article
2023
Applied Ergonomics
Validating the ability of a portable shoe-floor friction testing device, NextSTEPS, to predict human slips
Peer-Reviewed Article
2019
IISE Transactions on Occupational Ergonomics and Human Factors
Vinyl Composite Tile (VCT) Surrogate for Mechanical Slip Testing
Peer-Reviewed Article
2018
IISE Transactions on Occupational Ergonomics and Human Factors
Generalizability of Footwear Traction Performance across Flooring and Contaminant Conditions
Peer-Reviewed Article
2018
Applied Ergonomics
Coefficient of friction testing parameters influence the prediction of human slips
Peer-Reviewed Article
2018
Journal of Biomechanics
Kinematics and Kinetics of the Shoe during Human Slips