Comparison of Floor Cleaning Task between Laboratory Space and Actual Living Space

Abstract

Housework is daily task for human’s health and cleanly life. To prepare for an aged society, a new method to reduce housework load for is needed. In previous study, floor cleaning motions by a mop attached with cleaning sheet as housework were investigated to optimize the loads by using a motion capture system and some sensors at a laboratory space. But such floor cleaning motion as housework is conducted at living space in house. In this study, floor cleaning motions by the mop at the laboratory space and actual living space were investigated and compared by using a new system built form a motion capture system and inertial measurement units. As one of the results, it was found that maximum value of sweeping speed of the mop tended to be slower and maximum value of spine flexion angle tended to be smaller in actual living space than the laboratory space.