New Comprehensive Performance Standards for Chemical Protective Gloves, Boots, and Other Types of Protective Clothing

Wearable computers allow users the freedom to work in any environment including those that may require protective clothing. Past research has shown that protective clothing impedes performance on manual dexterity tasks. Little information exists, however, regarding how protective clothing affects task performance with wearable input devices. To facilitate future development of wearable input devices, a study was conducted to determine the effects of glove thickness and respirator use on task performance and user preference. Sixteen male participants used both a wearable mouse and touch pad to enter text. Task completion times were 9% slower when participants wore 25-mil versus 7-mil protective gloves, suggesting that thin protective gloves (i.e. 7-mil and 14-mil) are more suitable than thicker gloves when using wearable input devices. Respirator use did not affect task performance. Subjective ratings of difficulty, confidence, and preference provided strong support for the use of a touch pad device rather than a mouse.

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Analysis Based on Impact Resistance of Motorcycle Clothing Fabric Performance

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.633-634.439 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 633-634 ◽

pp. 439-442

Author(s):

Yu Xiu Yan ◽

Ling He ◽

Jing Jin ◽

Jian Wei Tao

Keyword(s):

Wear Resistance ◽

Theoretical Basis ◽

Protective Clothing ◽

Comprehensive Evaluation ◽

Impact Resistance ◽

Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation ◽

Raw Material ◽

Comprehensive Performance ◽

The Future

This paper chooses polyamide/spandex,polyester/spandex as raw material with different textile parameters to weave 8 fabrics, researches fabrics' impact resistance, elasticity, wear resistance and other properties, uses fuzzy comprehensive evaluation to analysis the comprehensive performance of 8 fabrics, confirms a kind of motorcycle clothing fabric with good impact resistance and wear ability finally , which provides a theoretical basis and practical reference for designing protective clothing with impact resistance in the future.

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