Publications

Overseas Sponsored visit as guest speaker/expert:

1. Invitation for attending Indo-Swiss Summer University, 2010 (5th-10th July, 2010) at Lausanne, by General Director and Director of international department for Asia, Board of Higher Education, State of Vaud, Switzerland. Hosted by Prof. Enrico M. Staderini, Professeur en techniques biomédicales, Western Switzerland University of Applied Sciences, Yverdon-les-Bains, Suisse A Sponsored visit.

2. Invited as overseas expert and delivered a talk on "Manual material handling research in India" at International Workshop on “Pedestrian headloading and its implication for health, well-being and livelihoods in Africa” during 16-18th January, 2012 at Durham University. Hosted by Prof. R. Hall, School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds, UK. A Sponsored visit

3. Imperial college, London, 6-8th November and 3-4th December, 2012. Invited and hosted by Prof. Rob J Fenton and Prof. Anthony Bull, Department of Bioengineering. Sponsored visits

4. An Invited Keynote speaker on Human Engineering in Industrial Design in the 2018 6th International Forum on Industrial Design conference at Luoyang International Exhibition Center, China during May 17-19, 2019. A sponsored visit without international travel expenses

5. Invited international Expert talk on Human Factors in Virtual Reality (dated 13th November, 9:00-11:00AM Indonesia time) in International Virtual Course on Virtual Reality in Product Design, hosted by Ergonomics, work engineering and work safety research group, Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), Indonesia, 12th - 27th November (every Saturday and Sunday), 2021.

Research Lab :

Human Engineering Research Lab (HER Lab)

Editorial Board Member :

International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics

Elsevier

Contacts:

+91-80-2293-3134/2359

email: rmaiti@iisc.ac.in

National Invited talks as guest speaker/expert: (Partially or fully sponsored)

6. Invited expert talk on Work assessment of concreting job in building construction female workers’ activities in India, International conference on HWWE 2005, IIT Guwahati, 10-12 December, 2005.

7. Invited as an expert at World Usability Day, NIAS, Bangalore, 2007

8.Invited as an expert by Regional Occupational Health (ROH), Bangalore, towards candidate selection, 2008

9. Invited as External expert towards purchasing Gait analysis related instruments at National Institute of Mental Health And NeuroScience (NIMHANS), Bangalore,2009.

10. Invited talk as an expert at Ramaiah college of Advanced studies, Bangalore, 18th November,.2010

11. Invited talk as expert on Adaptive thermal sensation and thermal comfort response of Indians, International conference on HWWE 2013, Vidyasagar University, Midmapore, W.Bengal, 4-6 December, 2013.

12. Invited key talk and participated as expert in DRDO-IIT/IISc Brainstorming Workshop on Human Factors & Human Reliability, Ministry of Defence, DRDO Bhawan, Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO), New Delhi Jun 24 2019. A Sponsored visit

Patents

1. SUBJECT TRANSFER APPARATUS; by B. Gurumoorthy, A. Chakrabarti, Rina Maiti, Kaminya S, Dr. R K Despande, N. Narsingh, Chavan Dafle, Vinay Kumar, Reddy Vadde, K. P. V. Srinivasan, Date of filling: 13.06.2015; Granted on 23.11.2020.

2. A TEACHING APPARATUS FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED, by Gagandeep Singh Khurana, Rina Maiti, Date of filling: 30.01.2019, Granted on 1.2.2024.

• International Journal & Conference Publications

International Journal

1. Rina Maiti & T. P. Bagchi, Effect of different multipliers and their interactions during manual lifting operations, International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, 36(11), 2006, Pages 991-1004

2. Rina Maiti, Workload assessment in building construction related activities in India, Applied Ergonomics 39 (2008) 754–765

3. Rina Maiti, Physiological and subjective thermal response from Indians, Building and Environment (Elsevier), 2013, vol. 70, pp. 306-317.

4. Rina Maiti, PMV model is insufficient to capture subjective thermal response from Indians, International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics (Elsevier), 44 (2014) 349 - 36

5. Rina Maiti and G. G. Ray. 2004. Study on the variation of peak isometric strength and EMG activity in static field-simulated lifting postures. International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics (Elsevier), 33 (2), 109-122.

6. Rina Maiti and G. G. Ray. 2004. Manual Lifting Load Limit equation for Adult Indian Women Workers Based on Physiological Criteria. Ergonomics (Taylor & francis), 47(1), 59-74.

7. Sung H. Han, Rina Maiti, Jungchul Park, Sang W. Hong. 2004. Use of Event-Related Brain Potentials (ERPs) for evaluating user preference of visual product images, Asian Journal of Ergonomics, 2004, 5(1), 31-42. An international Journal, Official journal of the Pan-pacific Council on Occupational Ergonomics.

8. Rina Maiti and G. G. Ray. 2004. Determination of Maximum acceptable weight of lift by adult Indian female workers, International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics (Elsevier), 34(6), 483-95.

International Conference

9. Rina Maiti and G. G. Ray. 2003. New design of a planar-electrogoniomter to measure knee flexion-extension angle. Proceedings of International Ergonomics Association (IEA) Conference, Seoul, South Korea, 24-29 August.

10. Rina Maiti and G. G. Ray. 2003. Maximum acceptable weight limit for safe-load handling during manual load lifting operation by Indian women workers. Proceedings of International Ergonomics Association (IEA) Conference, Seoul, South Korea, 24-29 August.

11. Jungchul Park, Sung H. Han, Sang W. Hong and Rina Maiti. 2003. Event-related brain potential (ERPs) as a measure of affective user satisfaction. Proceedings of International Ergonomics Association (IEA) Conference, Seoul, South Korea, 24-29 August.

12. Rina Maiti and G. G. Ray. Recommended Weight Limit (RWL) for Manual Load Lifting should be 15 kg for Indian female Worker. Proceedings of International Conference in Agricultural & Food Engineering 2004, IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal, India, 14-17 December, 2004.

13. Rina Maiti, Manikandan, K., Determination of Human Thermal Comfort for Indians, International Ergonomics Conference on Humanizing Work and Work Environment 2009, Calcutta University, Kolkata, December 17-19, 2009.

14. Ram Kinker Mishra, Rina Maiti, Muscle fatigue analysis under dynamic condition using linear and non linear signal processing techniques, International Ergonomics Conference on Humanizing Work and Work Environment 2011, IIT Madras, Chennai, December 15-17, 2011

15. Melon Joe, Rina Maiti, New Bicycle Seat Design based on the Pressure to the Perineum of the user, International Ergonomics Conference on Humanizing Work and Work Environment 2011, IIT Madras, Chennai, December 15-17, 2011.

16. Kinker Mishra, Rina Maiti, Non linear signal processing techniques applied on EMG signal for muscle fatigue analysis during dynamic contraction, International conference on CIRP Design 2012 – sustainable product development, IISc, Bangalore, 28th – 30th March, 2012.

17. Krupakar Pasala, Rina Maiti, A Hand Tool for making thin strips of Bamboo, International Ergonomics Conference on Humanizing Work and Work Environment 2011, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, December 6-9, 2015

18. Shivam Raina, Bismita Nayak and Rina Maiti, A Study on the effect of different pencil grips on writing parameters of children suffering from Dysgraphia, International Ergonomics Conference on Humanizing Work and Work Environment 2011, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, December 6-9, 2015

19. Srivastava, S and Maiti, R (2019) Multi-lane Detection Robust to Complex Illumination Variations and Noise Sources. In: 2019 IEEE International Conference on Electrical, Control and Instrumentation Engineering, ICECIE 2019, 25 November 2019, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

20. Sandeep, K.T., Maiti, R., (2023, July).Quantitative Assessment of Neuromotor Developmental Delays in Infants using Wearable Sensors and Assistive Technology. In 2023 45th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), International Convention Centre (ICC), Sydney Australia • 24th – 27th July 2023 (Poster.177570). IEEE.

National Conference

21. Rina Maiti and P. Dhara. 1992. A study on the effects of Alcohol on the blood pressure and heart-rate in tribal population, presented in 4th Annual Conference of The Physiological Society of India; November 28-29, 1992 at Kalyani; West Bengal, India.

22. Park, J., Han, S. H., Hong, S. W., Maiti, R., 2002. Effect of Product Images on Event-related Brain Potentials (ERPs). Proceedings of Ergonomics Society in Korea Conference.