enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartered_Institute_of...

   The Ergonomics Society was officially created on 17 September 1949 at a meeting of a number of academics at the Admiralty in London. Among the founding members were Frederic Bartlett, Donald Broadbent, W. E. Hick, Alan Welford, and J. S. Weiner. [2] In 1957 it started to publish the periodical journal Ergonomics.

3. International Ergonomics Association - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Ergonomics...

   The International Ergonomics Association (IEA) is a federation of fifty-two individual ergonomics organizations from around the world. IEA was formed in 1959. The mission of the IEA is to elaborate and advance ergonomics science and practice, and to improve the quality of life by expanding its scope of application and contribution to society.

4. Cognitive ergonomics - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_ergonomics

   Cognitive ergonomics (sometimes known as cognitive engineering though this was an earlier field) is an emerging branch of ergonomics. It places particular emphasis on the analysis of cognitive processes required of operators in modern industries and similar milieus.

5. Soft ergonomics - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_Ergonomics

   Soft ergonomics is the study of designing virtual interfaces that cater towards the wellness of the human body, its emotional and cognitive abilities. Soft ergonomics is a subset of ergonomics and human factors engineering , a larger body of the study of human abilities for designing equipment and devices that fit the human body.

6. Ergonomic hazard - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergonomic_hazard

   Commonly, ergonomic issues can arise in an office setting. [12] [13] Many people who work in an office (either a home office or a formal office building) often spend hours sitting and working in the same position. Ergonomic considerations include chair and computer monitor height adjustment, lighting position, break frequency, and chair design ...

7. Ergonomics - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergonomics

   The term ergonomics (from the Greek ἔργον, meaning "work", and νόμος, meaning "natural law") first entered the modern lexicon when Polish scientist Wojciech Jastrzębowski used the word in his 1857 article Rys ergonomji czyli nauki o pracy, opartej na prawdach poczerpniętych z Nauki Przyrody (The Outline of Ergonomics; i.e. Science of Work, Based on the Truths Taken from the ...