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This manual has been written to assist less-experienced lecturers wishing to use
the book ‘Introduction to Ergonomics’ astheir main course text for an introductory
program in ergonomics. Instructors with more experience will be quite able…

Any mature discipline and profession requires understanding of its core competencies. Also, the exercise of
defining core competencies is itself well worth while,
because it prompts a profession to look closely at itself,
its goals and its…

Several similar contests with the petty tyrants and marauders of the country followed, in all of
which Theseus was victorious. One of these was called Procrustes or the stretcher. He had an
iron bedstead on which he used to tie all travellers who…

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) (1995) about 58 per cent of the
world’s population over the age of 10 years spend one-third of their time at work. This
collective work generates US $21.6 trillion as gross domestic product which…

This book explores, but does not systematically chart, a large and sometimes controversial subject with
indefinite boundaries. It is the outgrowth of a multidisciplinary conference convened at Duke University in
the fall of 1993 to address…

This book is designed to assist a novice user of ergonomic methods in learning and
then carrying out their own analysis on a product. It also supports the expert as an
aide-memoire. It is probably best used as a reference source or supplement to…

. Cognitive automation and its systemergonomic introduction into work systems have been advanced in the meantime to
such a degree that already applications for operational work systems are slowly
becoming reality. This interdisciplinary book is…

With the building of the International Space Station (ISS), humans are committing
themselves to a continuing presence in space. This enterprise follows earlier space
stations under the Salyut, Skylab, and Mir programs. But the ISS represents a…

Human (or operator) modelling has been an extensive area of research in many
application areas, such as artificial intelligence, aviation, probabilistic risk assessments, system safety analysis and human performances in working contexts
(Cacciabue…

In this text aspects of human decision making in complex traffic environments are described and requirements for cognitive models that shall be
used as virtual test pilots or test drivers for new assistance concepts are derived.
Assistance…