Advances in occupational, social, and organizational ergonomics /

Worldwide, the attention for health, innovation, and productivity is increasing. In all situations, humans interact with their environment, which is the concern of the field of ergonomics. The need for knowledge and its applications is large and this book contributes to knowledge development as well...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Other Authors: Vink, P., Kantola, Jussi
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, ©2011.
Series:Advances in human factors and ergonomics series.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover; Table of Contents; Preface; Section I: Participation and Collaboration; Chapter 1: Participatory Ergonomics in a Mobile Factory: Ergonomic Device to Decrease Neck Pain; Chapter 2: Reflection-For-Action: A Collaborative Approach to the Design of a Future Factory; Chapter 3: Collaboration Between Design and Production by Exploiting VR/AR and PLM
  • Case Metso Minerals; Chapter 4: Trust Development in Distributed Multi-Cultural Teams: Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation; Chapter 5: Adaptive Coordination and Shared Leadership in High-Risk Teams: A Framework for Future Research.
  • Chapter 6: Collaborative Design of Workplaces: The Role of Boundary ObjectsChapter 7: Measuring Cross-Cultural Stimulus-Responses on the Internet; Chapter 8: Design and Testing of a Support of Ad Hoc Communication for Tacit Workers; Chapter 9: The Multidisciplinarity in the Development of Work Systems Conception Projects: A Review Theoretical-Practical About the Subject; Chapter 10: Using Operational Sequence Diagrams to Assess Interagency Coordination in Traffic Incident Management; Section II: Human Performance; Chapter 11: Globalizing Project Managers' Creative Tension, An Overview.
  • Chapter 12: Job-Redesign in Knowledge WorkChapter 13: Human Performance Technology and Working Reliability; Chapter 14: How Novice Instructor Can Learn a Stable Evaluation in Report Assignment with No Predetermined Rules; Chapter 15: Act and Anticipate Hazard Perception Training for Young-Inexperienced Drivers; Section III: Working and Working Environment; Chapter 16: Work Seats
  • A Short Historical Outline; Chapter 17: The Effects of Expectations and an Office Environment on Comfort Experience.
  • Chapter 18: Office Ergonomics Interventions: Examining the Effects on Musculoskeletal Risk, Environmental Control and ComfortChapter 19: Order-Picking in Deep Cold
  • A Gender-Related Analysis of Subjectively Assessed Effects; Chapter 20: Age-Related Physiological Strain of Male Order-Pickers in Deep Cold; Chapter 21: Ergonomic Assessment: Risk Exposure Among Construction Workers; Chapter 22: Glovebox Gloves: Effects on Forearm Muscle Activity for Gripping with Maximal and Sub-maximal Efforts.
  • Chapter 23: Factors Affecting Success and Failure in a Return-to-Work Program Established for a Department of Defense Aircraft Maintenance FacilityChapter 24: Innovative Ways of Working: A Comparison of a Traditional and a Flexible Office Environment on Office Space Use, Performance, Privacy and Satisfaction; Chapter 25: The Effects of Correlated Color Temperature and Illuminance on Color Discrimination; Chapter 26: Investigating Manual Work Using Human Factors Approaches and Behavioral Analysis; Chapter 27: Perceived Time, Temporal Order and Control in Boundaryless Work.