Ergonomics

Soon, robots will leave the factories and make their way into living rooms, supermarkets, and care facilities.

Manual Materials Handling MMH creates special problems for many different workers worldwide.

Core Principles of Maritime Navigation introduces the main navigation concepts required by trainees and professionals involved in maritime operations.

Maritime Accident and Incident Investigation covers a wide range of topics relating to maritime-orientated organisational hazards and risks, as well as root cause analyses and techniques for analysing evidence.

This volume examines the connection between culture and defence by providing an inside look at Brazil's aerospace strategies.

A collection of works authored by leading scientists from the US and Russia, Human-Computer Interaction and Operators' Performance: Optimizing Work Design with Activity Theory describes applied and systemic-structural activity theory as it is used to study human-computer interaction, aviation, design, and training.

The continued prevalence of major incidents (most recently the 2010 BP Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill) and preponderance of workplace fatalities and injuries as well as Process Safety Management (PSM) Incidents, globally, begs the question: why do incidents continue to occur in today's technologically advanced era?

This is a complete and concise guide to creating and managing a successful environmental audit program.

This book presents the idea that innovative ways of teaching and learning are very essential to retention and growth.

Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Contemporary Business highlights the symbiotic relationship between human-centric approaches and organizational success in 21st century business and corporate culture.

Association of American Publishers (AAP) Finalist for the 2020 PROSE AwardAssociation of American Publishers (AAP) Subject Category Winner for the 2020 PROSE Award2019 Taylor & Francis Award Winner for Outstanding Professional Book!

Technology has created innovative new prospects for manufacturing industries with Industry 4.

Occupational Ergonomics: Principles of Work Design focuses on the fundamentals in ergonomics design and evaluation.

There are unique greening solutions and practices that help create a lifestyle shift, improving the health of living and working spaces for its occupants from a personal, business, environmental, and profitable perspective.

This book sheds light on the role and impact of sustainability mediation, an effective tool for political authorities and business enterprises to persuade consumers of the integrity of their actions, products, and services.

The advent of augmented reality technologies used to assist human operators in complex manipulative operations-has brought an urgency to research into the modeling and training of human skills in Virtual Environments.

Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion aus der Sicht maßgeblicher Hersteller und Anwender.

This book is a collective work by many leading scientists, analysts, mathematicians, and engineers who have been working at the front end of reliability science and engineering.

With the development of sensor technology, wireless communications, big data, and machine learning, there is an increasing interest in technologies and solutions that assess and predict the state of equipment and assets within various industrial settings.

Thermal comfort is a desirable state familiar to all people.

This book aims to bring to the reader an overview of different applications of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) based on more than 20 years of experience working on these interfaces.

What is the relationship between the social performance of companies and their financial performance?

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.

Recent years have witnessed several tragedies during school and youth expeditions.

Chat-GPT, humanoid robotics, and self-driving cars are just a few of the things that are changing our everyday lives.

Resulting from the need for greater realism in models of human and organizational behavior in military simulations, there has been increased interest in research on integrative models of human performance, both within the cognitive science community generally, and within the defense and aerospace industries in particular.

Is human creativity a wall that AI can never scale?

For the past decade, the rapid development of the ergonomics disciplines as well as the fast growing economy in the Asian region have been attracting the attention of the international ergonomics community.

The fundamental function of buildings is to provide safe and healthy shelter.

Intelligibility is the ultimate goal of human communication.

This reference focuses on decision-making styles within cultures.

It is very easy for organizations to ignore or overlook the impact of social and commercial change-of increased pressure to deliver profit (above all else) and of transformation in the ways in which we are now working-on the mental health and, consequently, the performance of their employees.

Application of additive manufacturing and tissue engineering in the fields of science and technology enables the manufacturing of biocompatible, customized, reliable, and cost-effective parts, restoring the functionality of a failed human body part.

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.

Immersive technology is going to govern the next generation in terms of education, health, military, tourism, and much more.

Energy efficiency is critical for running computer vision on battery-powered systems, such as mobile phones or UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones).

It has long been accepted that the social and cultural meanings of the car far exceed the practical need for mobility.

Written by experts from various fields, this edited collection explores a wide range of issues pertaining to how computers evoke human social expectations.

Sustainability is a global issue and, with the advent of further legislation to make organizations "e;greener,"e; companies are keen to promote sustainable performance to survive in the market.

"e;Ergonomics in Computerized Offices should be required reading for office managers, union representatives, engineers, designers, or anyone employed in implementing a computerized office or improving conditions in an already computerized office.

What if structures could build themselves or adapt to fluctuating environments?

Nothing has been more prolific over the past century than human/machine interaction.

This book is for cybersecurity leaders across all industries and organizations.

Savvy managers no longer look at contracts and the law reactively but use them proactively to reduce their costs, minimize their risks, secure key talent, collaborate to innovate, protect intellectual property, and create value for their customers that is superior to that offered by competitors.

How safe are hospitals?

Computer Support for Collaborative Learning (CSCL) is a field of study centrally concerned with meaning and the practices of meaning-making in the context of joint activity, and the ways in which these practices are mediated through designed artifacts.

In the world of work, accountability can often translate into punishment.

Communications research in aviation is widely regarded by many in the healthcare community as the 'gold standard' to emulate.

Distributed Cognition and Reality puts theory into practice, as the first book to show how to apply the Perceptual Cycle Model in aviation decision making.