Contemporary Ergonomics 1998.

This latest volume in the "Contemporary Ergonomics" series contains papers on various topics such as: information systems; air traffic management; warnings; display design; verbal protocol analysis; modelling; ergonomics and standards; design.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hanson, Margaret A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : CRC Press, 1998.
Temas:
Human engineering.
Human comfort.
Ergonomics
Ergonomie.
Bien-être.
ergonomics.
comfort (sensation)
Human comfort
Human engineering
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Book Cover
  • Title
  • Contents
  • Ergonomics standards
  • the good, the bad and the ugly
  • International standardisation of graphical symbols for consumer products
  • The UK human factors defence standard: past, present and future
  • The role of physical aspects
  • The combined effects of physical and psychosocial work factors
  • The role of psychosocial factors
  • Interpreting the extent of musculoskeletal complaints
  • People in pain
  • Prevention of musculoskeletal disorders in the workplace
  • a strategy for UK research
  • A musculoskeletal risk screening tool for automotive line managers
  • Risk assessment design for musculoskeletal disorders in healthcare professionals
  • Ergonomic microscopes
  • solutions for the cyto-screener?
  • Musculoskeletal discomfort from dancing in nightclubs
  • Is the ergonomic approach advocated in the Manual Handling Regulations being adopted?
  • Control of manual handling risks within a soft drinks distribution centre
  • Training and patient-handling: an investigation of transfer
  • Risk management in manual handling for community nurses
  • Children's natural lifting patterns: an observational study
  • Manual handling and lifting during the later stages of pregnancy
  • Posture analysis and manual handling in nursery professionals
  • Can orthotics play a beneficial role during loaded and unloaded walking?
  • Investigation of spinal curvature while changing one's posture during sitting
  • The effect of load size and form on trunk asymmetry while lifting
  • The effect of vertical visual target location on head and neck posture
  • Is a prescription of physical changes sufficient to eliminate health and safety problems in computerised offices?
  • An evaluation of a trackball as an ergonomic intervention
  • Old methods, new chairs. Evaluating six of the latest ergonomic chairs for the modern office.
  • Development of a questionnaire to measure attitudes towards virtual reality
  • Orientation of blind users on the World Wide Web
  • F̃lash, splash and crash:̃ Human factors and the implementation of innovative Web technologies
  • Determining ergonomic factors in stress from work demands of nurses
  • A risk assessment and control cycle approach to managing workplace stress
  • Teleworking: Assessing the risks
  • Evaluating teleworking
  • case study
  • Team organisational mental models: an integrative framework for research
  • The impact of ITT on virtual team working in the European automotive industry
  • The effect of communication processes upon workers and job efficiency
  • A case study of job design in a steel plant
  • The effects of age and habitual physical activity on the adjustment to nocturnal shiftwork
  • Job design for university technicians: work activity and allocation of function
  • Allocation of functions and manufacturing job design based on knowledge requirements
  • The need to specify cognition within system requirements
  • Analysis of complex communication tasks
  • Health and safety as the basis for specifying information systems design requirements
  • Cognitive algorithms
  • Rapid prototyping in foam of 3D anthropometric computer models in functional postures
  • The use of high and low level prototyping methods for product user interfaces
  • Creative collaboration in engineering design teams
  • Pleasure and product semantics
  • A survey of usability practice and needs in Europe
  • Cultural influence in usability assessment
  • Interface display designs based on operator knowledge requirements
  • Understanding what makes icons effective: how subjective ratings can inform design
  • Representing uncertainty in decision support systems: the state of the art.
  • Representing reliability of at-risk information in tactical displays for fighter pilots
  • Semantic content analysis of task conformance
  • Warnings: a task-oriented design approach
  • Effects of auditorily-presented warning signal words on intended carefulness
  • Listeners' understanding of warning signal words
  • Perceived hazard and understandability of signal words and warning pictorials by Chinese community in Britain
  • Thinking about thinking aloud
  • Adjusting the cognitive walkthrough using the think-aloud method
  • Verbal protocol data for heart and lung bypass scenario simulation s̃cripts ̃
  • Use of verbal protocol analysis in the investigation of an order picking task
  • Selecting areas for intervention
  • Participatory ergonomics in the construction industry
  • User trial of a manual handling problem and its s̃olution ̃
  • Case study: a human factors safety assessment of a heavy lift operation
  • The application of ergonomics to volume high quality sheet printing and finishing
  • The application of human factors tools and techniques to the specification of an oil refinery process controller role
  • Feasibility study of containerisation for Travelling Post Office operations
  • The complexities of stress in the operational military environment
  • The development of physical selection procedures. Phase 1: job analysis
  • The human factor in applied warfare
  • Getting the picture
  • Investigating the mental picture of the air traffic controller
  • Developing a predictive model of controller workload in air traffic management
  • Assessing the capacity of Europe's airspace: The issues, experience and a method using a controller workload model
  • Evaluation of virtual prototypes for air traffic control
  • the MACAW technique
  • Development of an integrated decision making model for avionics application.
  • Psychophysiological measures of fatigue and somnolence in simulated air traffic control
  • What's skill got to do with it? Vehicle automation and driver mental workload
  • The use of automatic speech recognition in cars: a human factors review
  • Integration of the HMI for driver systems: classifying functionality and dialogue
  • Subjective symptoms of fatigue among commercial drivers
  • How did I get here? Driving without attention mode
  • Seniors' driving style and overtaking: is there a c̃omfortable traffic hole?̃
  • Speed limitation and driver behaviour
  • The ergonomics implications of conventional saloon car cabins on police drivers
  • The design of seat belts for tractors
  • Auditory distraction in the workplace: a review of the implications from laboratory studies
  • Transmission of shear vibration through gloves
  • The effect of wrist posture on attenuation of vibration in the hand-arm system
  • Criteria for selection of hand tools in the aircraft manufacturing industry: a review
  • Exposure assessment of ice cream scooping tasks
  • The effect of clothing fit on the clothing Ventilation Index
  • A thermoregulatory model for predicting transient thermal sensation
  • The user-oriented design, development and evaluation of the clothing envelope of thermal performance
  • A comparison of the thermal comfort of different wheelchair seating materials and an office chair
  • The effect of repeated exposure to extreme heat by fire training officers
  • The effects of self-contained breathing apparatus on gas exchange and heart rate during fire-fighter simulations
  • The effect of external air speed on the clothing ventilation index
  • Commercial planning and ergonomics
  • Human factors and design: Bridging the communication gap
  • Guidelines for addressing ergonomics in development aid.
  • Determining and evaluating ergonomic training needs for design engineers
  • Ergonomic ideals vs genuine constraints
  • Another look at Hick-Hyman's reaction time law
  • Design relevance of usage centred studies at odds with their scientific status?
  • The integration of human factors considerations into safety and risk assessment systems
  • The use of defibrillator devices by the lay public
  • Occupational disorders in Ghanaian subsistence farmers
  • AUTHOR INDEX
  • SUBJECT INDEX.

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