Contact Information

3106 Engineering Centers Building 1550 Engineering Drive Madison, WI 53706

Tel: 608/263-6803 Fax: 608/262-8848 E-mail: yen@engr.wisc.edu

Program Affiliations

• Biomedical Engineering
• Industrial and Systems Engineering

Duties and Responsibilities

ASSISTANT SCIENTIST - PRINCIPAL DUTIES The position involves all aspects of the research programs in the Biomedical Enginering Department (human factors, ergonomics, biomechanics, user interface design, and rehabilitation engineering ) and including the following functions: assist with the technical planning, development and implementation of laboratory and field experiments.

Develop experimental protocols, data collection and data analysis plans. Perform detailed engineering analyses for laboratory projects. Assists in technical writing , presentation development, and research reports, journal articles, and research grant writing. Perform and/or supervise the maintenance, hands-on diagnostic evaluation and repair of laboratory equipment. Design, specify, fabricate, test, and document new equipment and software.

Manage the day to day operation of the Ergonomics Analysis and Design Consortium including future research and development efforts. Maintain and manage the Website for the consortium. Provide training and instruction to consortium members on the software/hardware developed by the consortium.

Maintain and manage (including bug fixes, updates/improvements, and documentation) the commercial software package Multimedia Video Task Analysis (MVTA). Develop and teach workshops and seminars on the use of MVTA.

Supervise and assist graduate students on their research projects.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH PAPERS

• Yen, T. Y., and Radwin, R.G., 1997, Automated Job Analysis Using Biomechanical Data and Template Matching, Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 41st Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, 1997.
• Yen, T.Y. and Radwin, R.G., 1997a, A Comparison Between Time to Perform Job Analysis for Physical Stress Using Spectral Analysis and Posture Classification, Proceedings of the 13th Triennial Congress of the International Ergonomics Association, Tampere, Finland, 1997.
• Yen, T.Y. and Radwin, R.G., 1996, Comparison of spectral analysis, time and motion study, and postural classification for quantifying biomechanical stress in repetitive industrial work, 1996 4th Pan-Pacific Conference on Occupational Ergonomics, Taipei, Taiwan.
• T.Y. Yen and R.G. Radwin, 1995, A video-based system for acquiring biomechanical data synchronized with arbitrary events and activities, IEEE Transactions in Biomedical Engineering, 42(9), 944-948.
• R.G. Radwin and T.Y. Yen, 1993, Development of an instrument for assessing exposure to physical stress in repetitive manual work, Proceeding of the 1993 NSF Design and Manufacturing Systems Conference, Charlotte, N.C., 1993.
• T.Y. Yen, Appendix E - Signal Generation, Biomedical Digital Signal Processing, W.J. Tompkins, Ed., 1993, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.
• R.G. Radwin, M.L. Lin, and T.Y. Yen, 1994, Exposure assessment of biomechanical stress in repetitive manual work using frequency-weighted filters, Ergonomics, 37(12), 1984-1998.
• S.F. Wiker, N. Duffie, T.Y.Yen, and K.Gale, 1990, Comparison of force and tactile feedback for grasp force control in telemanipulation, Proceeding of the 4th Annual Workshop of Space Operations Applications and Research (SOAR 90), Albuquerque, NM.
• S.F. Wiker, N. Duffie, and T.Y.Yen, 1991, Importance of Numerosity and Distribution of Articulations within the Digits, Wrists, and Arms of Telemanipulators Confronted with Dexterous Assembly Tasks, Proceeding of the 5th Annual Workshop of Space Operations Applications and Research (SOAR 91), Albuquerque, NM.
• Radwin, R.G., Beebe, D.J., Webster, J.G., and Yen, T.Y., Instrumentation for Occupational Ergonomics, Occupational Ergonomics: Theory and Applications, A. Bhattacharya and J.D. McGlothlin, Eds., 1996, Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York.
• Ph.D. Thesis: Physical stress measurement for work-related musculoskeletal disorders using video-based continuous biomechanical data acquisition and interactive computer exposure analysis, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Masters Thesis: The level of wrist and digit degree of constraint for effective and efficient control of telemanipulator systems, Wisconsin Center for Space Automation and Robotics, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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