Ergonomics

Brain Technology in Augmented Cognition: Current and Future Trends informs engineers interested in human-computer interaction about the current state of augmented cognition.

This anthology brings together voices from industry and academia in a call for elevating the status, identity, value, and influence of technical communicators.

This book provides an authoritative and practical guide to the assessment, management, treatment and care of pilots and other professional groups within aviation; covering a range of relevant topics, for health and human resources practitioners working in the airline industry.

There is already a wealth of literature covering cumulative trauma disorders and medical management, as well as the biomechanics of manual material handling and lower back problems.

This series provides a fast track for publication of suitable papers from international contributors.

Project scheduling is required for good project management, and the schedule represents the project plan under a specific set of assumptions, often that it will avoid new risks or even those that have occurred on previous occasions.

Organizational Crisis Management: The Human Factor offers theoretical background and practical strategies for responding to workplace crises.

Internet of Things (IoT) is an ecosystem comprised of heterogeneous connected devices that communicate to deliver capabilities making our living, cities, transport, energy, and other areas more intelligent.

Presenting the Proceedings of the Ergonomics Society's annual conference, the series embraces the wide range of topics covered by ergonomics.

Using mixed and augmented reality in communities is an emerging media practice that is reshaping how we interact with our cities and neighbors.

Participatory Design and Social Transformation introduces theories and methodologies for using image-oriented narratives as modes of inquiry and proposition toward greater justice and equity for society and the environment.

Comprehensive in scope, this totally revamped edition of a bestseller is the ideal desk reference for anyone tasked with hazard control and safety management in the healthcare industry.

This book contains selected papers presented at the 1998 conference on Naturalistic Decision Making (NDM).

This is a composition of papers presented at the Annual Conference of the Ergonomics Society.

This volume examines the nature of human error -- its causes and origins, its classifications, and the extent to which it is possible to predict and prevent errors and their impact.

In 2019, a National Health Service Trust in England lost 11 members of current and former staff members to suspected suicide.

An encyclopedic, A-Z listing of terminology, Loss Prevention and Safety Control: Terms and Definitions addresses the need for a comprehensive reference that provides a complete and sufficient description of the terminology used in the safety/loss prevention field.

Fundamentally, fire prevention and control refer to systems and practices that increase a facility's ability to avoid fires, limit the development and spread of fires, and rapidly and effectively control fires.

Top performing dotcoms share a common feature.

Work has never been as safe as it seems today.

More and more the most traditional and typical applied ergonomics issues of the activities related to sea shipping, vehicle driving, and flying are required to deal with some emerging topics related to the growing automatism and manning reduction, the ICT's advances and pervasiveness, and the new demographic and social phenomena, such as aging or multiculturalism.

This volume covers the use of ergonomics modeling and on the evaluation of usability, which is a critical aspect of any human-technology system.

In this book the author applies contemporary error theory to the needs of investigators and of anyone attempting to understand why someone made a critical error, how that error led to an incident or accident, and how to prevent such errors in the future.

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.

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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.

This is a comprehensive, but accessible text that introduces students to the fields of human factors and ergonomics.

The TransNav 2013 Symposium held at the Gdynia Maritime University, Poland in June 2013 has brought together a wide range of participants from all over the world.

This is the fifth edited volume of refereed contributions, from an international group of researchers and specialists.

It is more possible than ever to influence and shape our working environments, our experience of work and each other.

Written by experts with real-world experience in applying ergonomics methodology in a range of contexts, Evaluation of Human Work, Fourth Edition explores ergonomics and human factors from a "e;doing it"e; perspective.

This workbook is designed to be used as part of the Developing an Ergonomics Process system.

At a time when our knowledge and understanding of health and safety at work is at its highest, statistics show that ongoing improvements in accident rates and time taken off work due to injury and ill-health are stagnating.

These volumes represent a concerted attempt to link what is known from human performance research to recognized national needs for improving productivity.

The approach to the book is analogous to a toolkit.

This book provides a great collection of work design testimonies with transferable lessons across many industry sectors and domains.

The broad and developing scope of ergonomics, the application of scientific knowledge to improve people's interaction with products, systems and environments, has been illustrated over the past sixteen years by the books that make up the Contemporary Ergonomics series.

This textbook comprehensively introduces readers to the cutting-edge field of human factors psychology, offering real-world examples illustrating how experimental findings can be used to improve the design of tools and environments that we use every day.

In this present internet age, risk analysis and crisis response based on information will make up a digital world full of possibilities and improvements to people's daily life and capabilities.

This book focuses on using plants in spatial design to reduce the infectiousness of viruses in different working and living spaces.

In this internet age of security challenges and threats from cybercrime, enhanced security measures are necessary.

The consideration of human factors issues is vital to the mining industry.

Human error is cited over and over as a cause of incidents and accidents.

This book serves as a foundation to the field of HCI, equipping readers with the necessary knowledge and skills to engage in this field.

Research conducted over many years suggests that between 60 and 85 per cent of all information security incidents are the result of a lack of knowledge and/or understanding amongst an organisation's own people.

Leading figures in Australian robotics research provide an overview and guidance for human-robot interaction (HRI) experimental design and evaluation methodologies that consider the ethical implications of the research and its applications from a human-centred and contextual perspective.

The ever-changing world of wearable technologies makes it difficult for experts and practitioners to keep up with the most recent developments.

Introduction to Senior Transportation focuses on an issue that is a growing concern-the community mobility needs of older adults.

The contributors to this important volume begin with a simple premise: Computer system development is difficult, not primarily because of the complexity of technical problems, but because of the social interaction involved when users and designers learn to create programs and express ideas together.