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Summary
Summary
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 over the past 15 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. Individual papers provide insight into current practice, present new research findings and form an invaluable reference source. The volumes provide a fast track for the publication of suitable papers from international contributors. These are chosen on the basis of abstracts submitted to a selection panel in the autumn prior to the Ergonomics Society's annual conference held in the spring.
Table of Contents
Preface | p. xv |
Manual Handling | |
Development of Manual handling Assessment Charts (MAC) for health and safety inspectors | p. 3 |
Reliability of Manual handling Assessment Charts (MAC) developed for regulatory inspectors in the United Kingdom | p. 9 |
Benchmarking of health and safety inspectors' Manual handling Assessment Charts (MAC) | p. 15 |
Developing a manual handling process within an NHS trust | p. 21 |
Manual handling in refuse collection: Reducing risk of musculoskeletal disorders | p. 26 |
Musculoskeletal Disorders | |
Can ergonomic microscopes reduce the risks of work-related musculo-skeletal disorders? | p. 35 |
The development of action levels for the 'Quick Exposure Check' (QEC) system | p. 41 |
The influence of psychosocial risk factors on absence due to musculoskeletal disorders | p. 47 |
A trial of back belts for rigid inflatable boat crews in the Royal Navy | p. 53 |
Work-related stress as a risk factor for WMSDs: Implications for ergonomics interventions | p. 59 |
The impact of design on MSD and psychological aspects in assembly lines | p. 65 |
Occupational Health and Safety | |
Stress in the workplace: Implications of recent decisions by the Court of Appeal | p. 73 |
The principle of ergonomics within European Union directives | p. 79 |
Contemporary ergonomics practice--The New Zealand setting | p. 84 |
An employee driven approach in tackling ergonomics at Ethicon Scotland | p. 90 |
Implementation of the physical agents (vibration) directive in the UK | p. 94 |
Slips, Trips and Falls | |
The role of surface waviness in friction at shoe and floor interface | p. 105 |
Being led up the garden path: Why older people are still falling at home | p. 111 |
Fatigue | |
An overview of research on fatigue in support shipping in the offshore oil industry | p. 119 |
A cross-vessel survey of seafarers examining factors associated with fatigue | p. 125 |
The impact of work patterns on stress and fatigue among offshore worker populations | p. 131 |
The influence of noise and motion on sleep, mood, and performance of seafarers | p. 137 |
Display Screen Equipment | |
Large scale DSE risk assessment programmes: A case study | p. 145 |
Dealing with an improvement notice for display screen equipment: A case study | p. 151 |
Working from home | p. 156 |
Vision | |
Telling time: The ergonomics of mounting a large public exhibition | p. 165 |
Variations in the discomfort and visual fatigue of cytology screeners | p. 171 |
The framing effect diminishes pictorial depth perception: Implications for indirect manipulation via video links | p. 177 |
Visual acuity in negotiating the built environment: Eye motion data and speed | p. 183 |
A field study investigating the relationship between visual discomfort and the menstrual cycle in VDU workers | p. 189 |
Applied Physiology | |
Predicting the relative metabolic and cardiovascular demands of simulated military load-carriage tasks | p. 197 |
Generic task-related occupational requirements for Royal Naval (RN) personnel | p. 203 |
The physical demands of Army basic training | p. 209 |
Estimating energy expenditure using Global Positioning System (GPS) | p. 215 |
An automatic gearshift logic for discrete bicycle transmissions | p. 220 |
Drinking glucose improves mood at the beginning of the working day | p. 226 |
Interface Design | |
Generating interface metaphors: A comparison of 2 methodologies | p. 235 |
How to handle notebook input devices: An insight in button use strategy | p. 241 |
Biometric verification at a self service interface | p. 247 |
Usability and user authentication: Pictorial passwords vs. PIN | p. 253 |
A comparison of direct user testing in different environmental contexts | p. 259 |
The use of the Cooper-Harper technique to enhance the measurement of rated sense-of-presence in virtual and real environments | p. 265 |
Breakdown analysis | p. 271 |
What can you get from a dribble file? | p. 277 |
Situation awareness in virtual environments: Theory and methodology | p. 283 |
A view of the future? The potential use of speech recognition for virtual reality applications | p. 289 |
Free speech in a virtual world: Speech recognition as a novel interaction device for virtual reality applications | p. 296 |
Air Traffic Control | |
Second evaluation of a radically revised en-route air traffic control system | p. 305 |
Towards a new task base for air traffic controllers in the future ATC/ATM | p. 311 |
Cultural differences in the meaning of competency in air traffic control | p. 317 |
Driving | |
The use of tactile and auditory lane departure warnings in a field operational test | p. 325 |
Visual demands associated with rural, urban, & motorway driving | p. 331 |
On-road assessment of three driver improvement interventions | p. 337 |
Has safety engineering on the roads worked? Comparing mortality on road and rail | p. 341 |
How does a speech user interface affect the driving task? | p. 347 |
The impact of mobile telephone use and accident history on turn indication decisions whilst driving | p. 353 |
Detecting rule violations in a transport system simulation: Effects of workload distribution | p. 359 |
Rail | |
Evaluation of railway signal designs using virtual reality simulation | p. 367 |
Driver recognition of railway signs at different speeds--A preliminary study | p. 373 |
Development of a railway safety research simulator | p. 379 |
Development of a human factors SPAD hazard checklist | p. 385 |
Safe and unsafe behaviour amongst railway track workers | p. 391 |
Mental workload of the railway signaller | p. 397 |
Baseline ergonomic assessment of signalling control facilities | p. 403 |
The role of communication failures in engineering work | p. 409 |
Motorcycle Ergonomics | |
Motorcycling and congestion: Behavioural impacts of a high proportion of motorcycles | p. 417 |
R[superscript 3]--A riding strategy formulation model for the risk averse motorcyclist | p. 423 |
Design | |
Evaluating medical equipment from the outside-in and from the inside-out: Rescue stretchers | p. 431 |
A pain in the rear: New undergraduates' understanding of ergonomics in design | p. 437 |
Harder hardware? A pilot study into gaining soldiers perceptions of their weapons appearance | p. 443 |
Risks and Hazards | |
Reframing risk using systems thinking | p. 451 |
Human factors and major hazards: A regulator's perspective | p. 457 |
The effects of familiarity on workplace risk assessment--Contextual insight or cognitive availability | p. 463 |
Human Error | |
Medication errors and human factors | p. 471 |
Repetitive inspection with checklists: Design and performance | p. 477 |
Do job aids help incident investigation? | p. 483 |
Training | |
The relationship between recruit test 4 scores and mechanical comprehension dependent tasks | p. 491 |
The value of an online, distance education program in human factors | p. 497 |
General Ergonomics | |
GM informational labels--Does shape matter? | p. 507 |
Identifying the task variables that influence assembly complexity | p. 513 |
Teaching ergonomics to 4 to 6 year olds | p. 519 |
Human-centred design in a system engineering context | p. 525 |
Standard symbols--Using the ISO test method | p. 531 |
Work domain models for cognitive ergonomics: An illustration from military command and control | p. 537 |
Information processing models: Benefits and limitations | p. 543 |
Sitting stresses inside the body | p. 549 |
Work smarter not harder! Ergonomics in a lean business environment | p. 555 |
Ergonomics--Is there a need for guidelines on role competencies? | p. 561 |
Identification of working height ranges for wheelchair users in workshop environments | p. 567 |
A process for capability acquisition | p. 573 |
The Marks and Spencer Brooklands project: Integrating ergonomics into the development of retail equipment | p. 579 |
An integrated approach to support teamworking | p. 585 |
User requirements analysis applied to environmental systems | p. 591 |
Driver education for pre-teens: A new approach toward reducing crashes among young novice drivers | p. 597 |
Author Index | p. 603 |
Subject Index | p. 609 |