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User Experience of Essential Worker Wearing a Face Shield While Working During Pandemic in Malaysia

Authors
Muhammad Asyraf Mhd Pauzi1, *, Khong Chee Weng1, Zainudin Siran1, Ku Ahmad Adzam Ku Saud1, Bostami bin Ahmad1, Mazlan Mahadzir1
1Faculty of Creative Multimedia, Multimedia University, Cyberjaya, Malaysia
*Corresponding author. Email: asyraf.pauzi@mmu.edu.my
Corresponding Author
Muhammad Asyraf Mhd Pauzi
Available Online 16 November 2023.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-138-8_36How to use a DOI?
Keywords
covid-19; face shield; user experience; 3d printing
Abstract

This paper presented the process of producing a face shield and the user experience of face shield wearer. Traced from Wuhan, China a severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 known as COVID-19 has spread to the whole world and being declared by World Health Organization (WHO) as global pandemic March 2020. This virus is highly contagious and can be transmitted via respiratory droplet and physical contact with the virus carrier forcing everybody to wear a facemask. With the emerging Delta variant, all essential workers are forced to wear extra protection during their daily routine work. A face shield produces by addictive manufacturing, or three-dimensional (3D) printing was introduced as to be alternatives production to cope with the shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) component that being faced by essential worker all around the world. This face shield was printed by fused deposition modelling (FDM) printer using poly-lactic acid (PLA) as material. Attached to a thin clear Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) sheet, this face shield was given to 3 front-liners and 4 essential workers to be ware during their daily routine work. For this study, their feedback of using the face shield is taken and recorded via conversation during think aloud session. The outcome is being presented in this paper as this face shield is proven to be effective and feasible to be wear by frontliners and essential workers in Malaysia during this pandemic era.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Creative Multimedia 2023 (ICCM 2023)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
16 November 2023
ISBN
978-2-38476-138-8
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-138-8_36How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2023 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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