Technical design

This book presents a complete overview of the main EEG-based Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) paradigms and the related practical solutions for their design, prototyping, and testing.

Engineering structures for reliable function and safety have to be designed such that operational mechanical loads are compensated for by stresses in the components bearable by the materials used.

This book statistically confirms that complexity and changing technologies that affect the way operators interact within the systems of the nuclear facili-ties exacerbate the severity of incidents caused by human error and details the application of the systems engineering process to reduce human error given industries' rapidly advancing technology.

Organizational change is often insider-led and supported by internal consultants and change agents.

Technological Trajectories and the Human Environment provides a surprising projection of a much greener planet, based on long-range analysis of trends in the efficient use of energy, materials, and land.

This book investigates the world of leading indicators and explores how they can be used effectively, providing 21st-century safety professionals with alternative metrics and guidance, which will enable them to make a difference in managing risk within an organization.

Software Designers in Action: A Human-Centric Look at Design Work examines how developers actually perform software design in their day-to-day work.

Modern system-on-chip (SoC) design shows a clear trend toward integration of multiple processor cores on a single chip.

Base stations developed according to the 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard require unprecedented processing power.

This book contains selected papers from the symposium on Engineering Pedagogy organised in honour of Professor Amitabha Ghosh and his Lecture Series on Evolution of Classical Mechanics.

One of the foundations for change in our society comes from designing.

This invaluable text/reference reviews the state of the art in simulation-based approaches across a wide range of different disciplines, and provides evidence of using simulation-based approaches to advance these disciplines.

This book reports on cutting-edge research and developments in manufacturing, giving a special emphasis to solutions for the Changing World Order.

Published more than ten years ago, the first edition of Accident/Incident Prevention Techniques provided clear, comprehensive guidance on how to mitigate the cost, in personnel and to the bottom line, of accidents/incidents in the workplace.

Since its inception, just after the Second World War, Human Factors research has paid special attention to the issues surrounding human control of systems.

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 handbook addresses how smart operations, management, and healthcare can be used to detect and analyze supply chain problems, business problems, and diseases.

In the past few years the topic of work and ageing has received much public and professional interest.

This book, the first full-length text on the subject, explores the everyday use of music listening while driving a car.

This Brief introduces engineers to the main principles in ethics, research design, statistics, and publishing of human subject research.

This text introduces bad events (incidents and accidents) named as metaphors.

The aim of this book is to provide "e;human engineering"e; for workplaces, tools, machinery, computers, shift work, lighting, sound, climate, work demands, offices, vehicles, healthcare, and the home - and everything else that we can produce - to suit the human body and mind.

This book provides a detailed general overview of the human factors and performance limitations associated with flying fast jets, integrating all the latest available research literature on the demanding operational tasks faced by such pilots and aircrews.

This book explores systems-based, co-design, introducing a "e;Decision-Based, Co-Design"e; (DBCD) approach for the co-design of materials, products, and processes.

Computer systems have become an important element of the world economy, with billions of dollars spent each year on development, manufacture, operation, and maintenance.

The twenty-one contributions to About: Designing draw on a rich variety of methodological positions, research backgrounds and design disciplines including architecture, product design, engineering, applied linguistics, communication studies, cognitive psychology, and discourse studies.

PROCESS OPTIMIZATION: A Statistical Approach is a textbook for a course in experimental optimization techniques for industrial production processes and other "e;noisy"e; systems where the main emphasis is process optimization.

This book presents selected proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Processing and Design (ICAMPD 2019).

Cities have always played a prominent role in the prosperity of civilization.

This book presents a novel method of engineering to create advanced frugal products from scratch.

Occupational Health and Safety has been a growth industry for several decades and has moved beyond the realm of the human resource department and workers' compensation claims.

This book offers a global perspective on healthcare reform and its relationship with efforts to improve quality and safety.

High speed catamaran and multihull high speed marine vessel have become very popular in the last two decades.

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 for 25 years by the books which make up the Contemporary Ergonomics series.

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

With unintended harm during hospital care costing billions of dollars to the world economy, not to mention millions of deaths each year, it's no wonder the issue is equally front and center in the minds of healthcare providers and the public.

This book showcases cutting-edge research papers from the 6th International Conference on Research into Design (ICoRD 2017) - the largest in India in this area - written by eminent researchers from across the world on design process, technologies, methods and tools, and their impact on innovation, for supporting design for communities.

In this book, the author has presented an introduction to the practical application of some of the essential technical topics related to computer-aided engineering (CAE).

Covering field history and discussing actual modern-day pilot actions and tasks, the editors of this volume have integrated contributions from leaders in aviation to present psychological principles and research pertinent to the interface between a pilot and the cockpit.

Bio-inspired design (also called biomimetics or biomimicry) is a promising approach for the development of innovative technical products - not only in mechanical engineering, but also in areas such as material science and even computer engineering.

Railway systems have a long history of train protection and control, as to reduce the risk of train accidents.

This book is devoted to the examination of emerging practical issues related to automated and autonomous systems.

To mark the 25th anniversary of Contemporary Ergonomics, the current and past editors have selected 4 papers from each of the years that they oversaw its publication.

Dieses seit über 6 Auflagen hinweg gut eingeführte Lehr- und Übungsbuch ergänzt das Roloff/Matek Lehr- und Lernsystem.

This text introduces industrial and organisational psychologists to the discipline of human factors.

This book offers a well-structured, critical review of current design practice for tensioned membrane structures, including a detailed analysis of the experimental data required and critical issues relating to the lack of a set of design codes and testing procedures.

Plastics Product Design Provides the reader with access to lessons learned in the author s 40 years of plastics product design experiencePart 1 of the book provides the reader with an introduction to plastics as a design material and a discussion of materials commonly in use today.

Thanks to advances in computer technology in the last twenty years, navigation system, cabin environment control, ACC, advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) and automated driving have become a part of the automobile experience.