Ergonomics

"e;Fundamentally, making games is designing with others, everyone contributing from different angles towards the best possible product.

Occupational Safety and Hygiene II contains selected papers from the International Symposium on Occupational Safety and Hygiene (SHO2014, Guimar Portugal, 13-14 February 2014), which was organized by the Portuguese Society for Occupational Safety and Hygiene (SPOSHO).

The 2014 Asia-Pacific Congress on Sports Technology and Engineering (STE 2014) was held in Singapore, December 8-9, 2014.

During day-to-day use, thousands of lives are lost each year due to accidents, directly or indirectly, resulting from poor transportation system reliability and safety.

This book provides a first-of-its-kind approach for using blockchain to enhance resilience in disaster supply chain and logistics management, especially when dealing with dynamic communication, relief operations, prioritization, coordination, and distribution of scarce resources - these are elements of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) describing a dynamic environment that now form the "e;new norm"e; for many leaders.

This book introduces fundamental, advanced, and future-oriented scientific quality management methods for the engineering and manufacturing industries.

This book offers analytical methods for studying human work in ergonomics and psychology that are similar to ones utilized by the engineering sciences.

The aim of this book is to show how a cultural approach can contribute to the assessment, description and improvement of safety conditions in organizations.

Critical Interventions in the Ethics of Healthcare argues that traditional modes of bioethics are proving incommensurable with burgeoning biotechnologies and consequently, emerging subjectivities.

Responding to cultural demands for meaning, user-friendliness, and fun as well as the opportunities of the emerging information society, The Semantic Turn boldly outlines a new science for design that gives designers previously unavailable grounds on which to state their claims and validate their designs.

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This book introduces Vision Zero, a commitment to create workplaces free from serious accidents, harm and work- related diseases while delivering excellence in Safety, Health and Wellbeing (SHW).

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the concept of "e;Total Exposure Health"e; and presents details on subject areas which make up the framework.

Although its roots can be traced to the 19th century, progress in the study of nonlinear dynamical systems has taken off in the last 30 years.

A difficult and recalcitrant phenomenon, medical error causes pervasive and expensive problems in terms of patient injury, ineffective treatment, and rising healthcare costs.

The book presents a detailed discussion of nanomaterials, nanofluids and application of nanofluids as a coolant to reduce heat transfer.

In the past, company success was typically measured by financial indicators.

Much has happened to certification and to human factors during the past few years.

Asbestos: Risk Assessment, Epidemiology, and Health Effects offers a key text on the evolving information regarding asbestos and human health.

Written clearly and concisely, using jargon-free language that is easily understood, this book compresses research from the past few decades into an accessible resource.

Around the world, the production and use of nanomaterials, as well as carcinogenic, mutagenic, reprotoxic substances (CMR) and endocrine disruptors has systematically increased.

Cultural factors, in both the narrow sense of different national, racial, and ethnic groups, and in the broader sense of different groups of any type, play major roles in individual and group decisions.

This book highlights the problems and hazards of manual materials handling and provides ergonomic and engineering solutions for alleviating them.

This handbook covers smart manufacturing development, processing, modifications, and applications.

This book offers a comprehensive understanding of the current scientific knowledge concerning risks associated with food preparation, processing and consumption, with particular attention to the gap between scientific research and public perception.

This important new volume brings together recent research by leading international ergonomists and sport and exercise scientists.

This book deals with the central question of how human factors and ergonomics (HFE) might contribute to solutions for the more sustainable development of our world.

3D Printing for Product Designers closes the gap between the rhetoric of 3D printing in manufacturing and the reality for product designers.

Industrial Safety and Health for Infrastructure Services provides an in-depth look into the areas of transportation, utilities, administrative, waste management, and remediation.

This volume presents research from a variety of perspectives on the enhancement of human intelligence.

This book describes patterns of language and culture in human-computer interaction (HCI).

Safety has traditionally been defined as a condition where the number of adverse outcomes was as low as possible (Safety-I).

This book explores recent research in intuitive interaction worldwide by a range of leading academics and practitioners in the field.

How do you prevent a critical care nurse from accidentally delivering a morphine overdose to an ill patient?

Hailed on first publication as a compendium of foundational principles and cutting-edge research, The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook has become the gold standard reference in this field.

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is a transformative force in smart healthcare.

Human Activity and Behavior Analysis relates to the field of vision and sensor-based human action or activity and behavior analysis and recognition.

Although work furniture has had so much more attention recently there is a long way to go before this is translated into action in the wider world.

The book offers insight into the healthcare system by exploring emerging technologies and AI-based applications and implementation strategies.

This book presents an accessible introduction to data-driven storytelling.

This volume seeks to answer the question: "e;Can findings from cognitive science enhance the user-computer interaction process?

As a safety manager in today's work environment, you wear hats in many different fields.

This book takes the reader through the process of learning and creating data visualisation, following a unique journey with questions every step of the way, ultimately discussing how and when to bend and break the "e;rules"e; to come up with creative, unique, and sometimes unconventional ideas.

Although we now have sophisticated algorithms and techniques for determining the shapes and sizes and for matching the fit between shoes and feet, few, if any, of the books currently available cover these new technologies until now.

Current and emerging trends in the domains of health management and the work sector, the abundance of new consumer products pervading the marketplace, and the desires of many older adults to undertake new learning experiences means that older adults, like their younger counterparts, will need to continually engage in new learning and training.

How-To Guide Written By Practicing ProfessionalsPhysical Security and Safety: A Field Guide for the Practitioner introduces the basic principles of safety in the workplace, and effectively addresses the needs of the responsible security practitioner.

Forming connections between human performance and design, this new edition of Engineering Psychology and Human Performance examines human-machine interaction.

Whereas traditional classroom instruction requires pilots to be pulled 'off the line', a training facility to be maintained and instructors to be compensated, e-learning is extremely cost-effective and therefore an attractive alternative.

The idea of creating artificial humans can be found at the beginning of the human culture.