Predictive Modelling of Musculiskeletal  Pain Developed in a Person While  Working on VDT Using Artificial Neural  Network (ANN)

Maninderjit Singh; Dr. Suman Kant; Shashikant Pandey

Volume : II, Issue : VII, July - 2013

Predictive Modelling of Musculiskeletal Pain Developed in a Person While Working on VDT Using Artificial Neural Network (ANN)

Maninderjit Singh, Dr. Suman Kant, Shashikant Pandey

Abstract :

In this paper predictive model for total pain generated during use of VDT has been developed with the use of Artificial Neural Network. This work consists of two phases, in the first phase persons working on VDTs were asked to fill the questionnaire, with their responses regarding musculoskeletal pain input-output data was framed. Numbers of working hours, sex of persons were considered as input variable however pain is taken as output variable. Using these data Artificial Neural Network has been trained with the help of Feed Forward Back Propagation Technique in second phase. With generating numerous outputs with newer set of inputs, it was predicted through developed model that male person feel less pain with working about 7 hours, however female feels more pain even in 6 hours