This series provides a fast track for publication of suitable papers from international contributors. The papers are chosen on the basis of abstracts submitted to a selection pannel in the autumn prior to the conference.IN addition to mainstream ergonomists and human factor specialists, contemporary ergonomicswill appeal to all those who have an interest in peoples interaction with their working and leisure environment including: designers, manufacturing and production engineers, health and safety specialists, organisational, applied and engineering psychologists.
Author(s): Margaret Hanson
Edition: 1
Year: 1998
Language: English
Pages: 600
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Ergonomics standards;the good, the bad and the ugly......Page 18
International standardisation of graphical symbols for consumer products......Page 23
The UK human factors defence standard: past, present and future......Page 28
The role of physical aspects......Page 36
The combined effects of physical and psychosocial work factors......Page 40
The role of psychosocial factors......Page 45
Interpreting the extent of musculoskeletal complaints......Page 51
People in pain......Page 56
Prevention of musculoskeletal disorders in the workplace;a strategy for UK research......Page 61
A musculoskeletal risk screening tool for automotive line managers......Page 66
Risk assessment design for musculoskeletal disorders in healthcare professionals......Page 71
Ergonomic microscopes;solutions for the cyto-screener?......Page 76
Musculoskeletal discomfort from dancing in nightclubs......Page 81
Is the ergonomic approach advocated in the Manual Handling Regulations being adopted?......Page 87
Control of manual handling risks within a soft drinks distribution centre......Page 92
Training and patient-handling: an investigation of transfer......Page 97
Risk management in manual handling for community nurses......Page 102
Children's natural lifting patterns: an observational study......Page 107
Manual handling and lifting during the later stages of pregnancy......Page 111
Posture analysis and manual handling in nursery professionals......Page 116
Can orthotics play a beneficial role during loaded and unloaded walking?......Page 123
Investigation of spinal curvature while changing one's posture during sitting......Page 128
The effect of load size and form on trunk asymmetry while lifting......Page 133
The effect of vertical visual target location on head and neck posture......Page 138
Is a prescription of physical changes sufficient to eliminate health and safety problems in computerised offices?......Page 145
An evaluation of a trackball as an ergonomic intervention......Page 150
Old methods, new chairs. Evaluating six of the latest ergonomic chairs for the modern office......Page 155
Development of a questionnaire to measure attitudes towards virtual reality......Page 161
Orientation of blind users on the World Wide Web......Page 166
~Flash, splash and crash~: Human factors and the implementation of innovative Web technologies......Page 171
Determining ergonomic factors in stress from work demands of nurses......Page 177
A risk assessment and control cycle approach to managing workplace stress......Page 182
Teleworking: Assessing the risks......Page 189
Evaluating teleworking;case study......Page 194
Team organisational mental models: an integrative framework for research......Page 201
The impact of ITT on virtual team working in the European automotive industry......Page 206
The effect of communication processes upon workers and job efficiency......Page 213
A case study of job design in a steel plant......Page 218
The effects of age and habitual physical activity on the adjustment to nocturnal shiftwork......Page 223
Job design for university technicians: work activity and allocation of function......Page 228
Allocation of functions and manufacturing job design based on knowledge requirements......Page 235
The need to specify cognition within system requirements......Page 240
Analysis of complex communication tasks......Page 245
Health and safety as the basis for specifying information systems design requirements......Page 251
Cognitive algorithms......Page 256
Rapid prototyping in foam of 3D anthropometric computer models in functional postures......Page 263
The use of high and low level prototyping methods for product user interfaces......Page 268
Creative collaboration in engineering design teams......Page 273
Pleasure and product semantics......Page 279
A survey of usability practice and needs in Europe......Page 284
Cultural influence in usability assessment......Page 289
Interface display designs based on operator knowledge requirements......Page 295
Understanding what makes icons effective: how subjective ratings can inform design......Page 300
Representing uncertainty in decision support systems: the state of the art......Page 305
Representing reliability of at-risk information in tactical displays for fighter pilots......Page 310
Semantic content analysis of task conformance......Page 315
Warnings: a task-oriented design approach......Page 321
Effects of auditorily-presented warning signal words on intended carefulness......Page 326
Listeners' understanding of warning signal words......Page 331
Perceived hazard and understandability of signal words and warning pictorials by Chinese community in Britain......Page 336
Thinking about thinking aloud......Page 343
Adjusting the cognitive walkthrough using the think-aloud method......Page 348
Verbal protocol data for heart and lung bypass scenario simulation ~scripts~......Page 353
Use of verbal protocol analysis in the investigation of an order picking task......Page 358
Selecting areas for intervention......Page 365
Participatory ergonomics in the construction industry......Page 370
User trial of a manual handling problem and its ~solution~......Page 375
Case study: a human factors safety assessment of a heavy lift operation......Page 381
The application of ergonomics to volume high quality sheet printing and finishing......Page 386
The application of human factors tools and techniques to the specification of an oil refinery process controller role......Page 391
Feasibility study of containerisation for Travelling Post Office operations......Page 396
The complexities of stress in the operational military environment......Page 403
The development of physical selection procedures. Phase 1: job analysis......Page 408
The human factor in applied warfare......Page 413
Getting the picture;Investigating the mental picture of the air traffic controller......Page 419
Developing a predictive model of controller workload in air traffic management......Page 424
Assessing the capacity of Europe's airspace: The issues, experience and a method using a controller workload model......Page 429
Evaluation of virtual prototypes for air traffic control;the MACAW technique......Page 434
Development of an integrated decision making model for avionics application......Page 439
Psychophysiological measures of fatigue and somnolence in simulated air traffic control......Page 444
What's skill got to do with it? Vehicle automation and driver mental workload......Page 451
The use of automatic speech recognition in cars: a human factors review......Page 456
Integration of the HMI for driver systems: classifying functionality and dialogue......Page 461
Subjective symptoms of fatigue among commercial drivers......Page 466
How did I get here? Driving without attention mode......Page 471
Seniors' driving style and overtaking: is there a ~comfortable traffic hole~?......Page 476
Speed limitation and driver behaviour......Page 481
The ergonomics implications of conventional saloon car cabins on police drivers......Page 486
The design of seat belts for tractors......Page 491
Auditory distraction in the workplace: a review of the implications from laboratory studies......Page 497
Transmission of shear vibration through gloves......Page 502
The effect of wrist posture on attenuation of vibration in the hand-arm system......Page 507
Criteria for selection of hand tools in the aircraft manufacturing industry: a review......Page 513
Exposure assessment of ice cream scooping tasks......Page 518
The effect of clothing fit on the clothing Ventilation Index......Page 525
A thermoregulatory model for predicting transient thermal sensation......Page 530
The user-oriented design, development and evaluation of the clothing envelope of thermal performance......Page 535
A comparison of the thermal comfort of different wheelchair seating materials and an office chair......Page 540
The effect of repeated exposure to extreme heat by fire training officers......Page 545
The effects of self-contained breathing apparatus on gas exchange and heart rate during fire-fighter simulations......Page 550
The effect of external air speed on the clothing ventilation index......Page 555
Commercial planning and ergonomics......Page 561
Human factors and design: Bridging the communication gap......Page 566
Guidelines for addressing ergonomics in development aid......Page 571
Determining and evaluating ergonomic training needs for design engineers......Page 575
Ergonomic ideals vs genuine constraints......Page 580
Another look at Hick-Hyman's reaction time law......Page 587
Design relevance of usage centred studies at odds with their scientific status?......Page 592
The integration of human factors considerations into safety and risk assessment systems......Page 597
The use of defibrillator devices by the lay public......Page 602
Occupational disorders in Ghanaian subsistence farmers......Page 607
AUTHOR INDEX......Page 614
SUBJECT INDEX......Page 618
