Ergonomics

Providing up-to-date, practical advice on how to design, select, and structure telemedicine interventions with older adults, this book discusses the age-related changes that can affect the efficacy of these systems.

This book covers the application of psychological principles and techniques to situations and problems of aviation.

Fast and Slow: Methods for Timely HCI and Interaction Design Research explores the dynamic interplay between rapid and reflective, or long-term vs.

This volume of the Handbook of Usability and User Experience (UX) presents research and case studies used to design products, systems and environments with good usability and consequent acceptance, pleasure in use, good user experience, and understanding of human interaction issues with products and systems for their improvement.

This unique book expands the contribution of aviation psychology and human factors to the aviation industry within the Asia Pacific region, with participation from many other parts of the globe, and key local and international experts, developing the safety, efficiency and viability of the industry.

This book is the fourth in the series and describes some of the most recent advances and examines emerging problems in engineering psychology and cognitive ergonomics.

The field of risk science continues to learn from the long history of events to develop principles and practices that enable individuals, organizations, and societies to understand and manage future risk.

Healthcare professionals face an increasing threat of litigation from parties whom they have never met in their daily medical practice and who look nothing like the traditional patient.

In Conceptions of Professionalism, Ken Bruce and Abdullahi Ahmed present the results of research into understanding what professionalism means to individuals who are CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNERa professionals and how they conceive of acting professionally.

Rapid advancements in train control and in-cab technologies provide significant opportunities for rail operators to improve efficiency and enhance their operations.

Recipient of the 2020 IISE Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers Joint Publishers Book-of-the-Year Award Industrial engineering is the profession dedicated to making collective systems function better with less waste, better quality, and fewer resources, to serve the needs of society more efficiently and more effectively.

The book is designed as an accessible and readable introduction to a rapidly expanding area that is in demand worldwide.

The application of futures thinking in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) has become increasingly important in recent years.

Despite many years of development, risk management remains problematic for the majority of organizations.

This volume is a collection of articles published since engineering ethics developed a distinct scholarly field in the late 1970s that will help define the field of engineering ethics.

Written by Patrick W.

Health care is everywhere under tremendous pressure with regard to efficiency, safety, and economic viability - to say nothing of having to meet various political agendas - and has responded by eagerly adopting techniques that have been useful in other industries, such as quality management, lean production, and high reliability.

Protect yourself from machinery accidents, skin cancer, pesticide exposure, and so much more!

With contributions from an international group of authors with diverse backgrounds, this set comprises all fourteen volumes of the proceedings of the 4th AHFE Conference 21-25 July 2012.

Exploratory data analysis helps to recognize natural patterns hidden in the data.

Two parallel investigations take place after every aviation accident: one technical, one judicial.

In a world where artificial intelligence is reshaping industries, how can we ensure that AI enhances human skills rather than replacing them?

This book is intended to help young and novice scientists by providing them with advice on how to overcome adversities.

The approach to the book is analogous to a toolkit.

Guidebook to Successful Safety Programming is the first "e;how to"e; guide to present the elements and activities necessary for successful safety, health, and environmental programs in any company or organization.

This book introduces and explains the parametric accelerated life testing (ALT) methodology as a new reliability methodology based on statistics, to help avoid recalls of products in the marketplace.

Professionals striving for accident reduction must deal with systems in which both technical and human elements play equal and complementary roles.

Despite a growing body of research and targeted remediation, teenage and novice drivers continue to be six to nine times more likely to die in a crash than they are when they are just a few years older.

Top businesses recognise risk management as a core feature of their project management process and approach to the governance of projects.

Close calls, narrow escapes, or near hits.

The extensive safety restrictions imposed globally due to the COVID-19 pandemic have brought significant changes to almost all environmental parameters.

How can we give data physical form?

This full-color volume proposes an innovative methodology that uses the functional aspects of nature to inspire improvements in building design and form, encouraging designers to apply biomimetic principles to architectural processes.

Uncertainty affects us in our everyday lives, and in a wide range of situations but how do individuals and indeed organisations respond to uncertainty and how does it impact their decision-making and actions?

Risk is an enduring theme of modern life.

This book details how to start and maintain a successful safety program in a municipal or industrial water or wastewater plant with special emphasis on the practical implementation.

The key theme of this book is organizational learning and its consequences for the field of aviation safety.

The Business Side of Learning Design and Technologies provides actionable tools and techniques for recognizing the impact of learning design/technology decisions at the project, business unit, and organizational levels.

The information security arena is often vague and confusing for internet users, both young and old.

This is a practical guide for those who do the work of maintaining and improving the reliability of mechanical machinery.

This book explains the application of ergonomics in three different areas of design, namely product, space, and communication.

Brain-Computer Interfaces Handbook: Technological and Theoretical Advances provides a tutorial and an overview of the rich and multi-faceted world of Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs).

This exceptional guidebook provides the strategies necessary to curtail ergonomic losses and costs associated with spiraling worker's compensation premiums and medical expenses, of major concern in all businesses.

The text provides in-depth knowledge about recent advances in solar collector systems, photovoltaic systems, the role of thermal energy systems in buildings, phase change materials, geothermal energy, biofuels, and thermal management systems for EVs in social and industrial applications.

Improvements in safety in the air and in space can be achieved through better ergonomics, better work environments, and other efforts of traditional avionic psychology that directly affect human behaviors and performance.

Over the last 50 years, the theory and the methods of reliability analysis have developed significantly.

A common source of failure in a human dependent barrier or safety critical task is a designed in mismatch error.

Hearing is a prerequisite for the evolution of language and thus the development of human societies.

Training and certification for Seafarers has been founded on technical aspects, but maybe the most important thing to do aboard a ship is dealing with people.