Ergonomics

The International Board for the Certification of Safety Managers (IBFCSM) has designated this text as the Primary Study Reference for those prepari...

When a venture seems to be faltering, do you persist and hope that things will get better or do you cut your losses? This may be one of the most im...

Business integrity is rarely a matter of straight-forward rules. As the nature and geography of business transactions become more complex, managers...

Savvy managers no longer look at contracts and the law reactively but use them proactively to reduce their costs, minimize their risks, secure key ...

Browsing for information is a significant part of most research activity, but many online collections hamper browsing with interfaces that are vari...

This book compiles the papers presented at the Annual Conference of the Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors held in April 2010. It embraces...

This book is about the simulation and modeling of novel chaotic systems within the frame of fractal-fractional operators. The methods used, their c...

This book discusses the 3D printing of sensors, actuators, and antennas and illustrates how manufacturers can create smart materials that can be ef...

This two volumes text covers fundamental theoretical concepts on human factors principles and the latest applications and practical implementation ...

Patients have always been encouraged to be active participants in managing their health. New technologies, cultural shifts, trends in healthcare de...

Focused on the United States, this book summarizes the secondary impacts of COVID-19 due to the increased use of technology. Establishing the globa...

Krishnan describes military applications of neuroscience research and emerging neurotechnology with relevance to the conduct of armed conflict and ...

The TransNav 2011 Symposium held at the Gdynia Maritime University, Poland in June 2011 has brought together a wide range of participants from all ...

Since 1981, the biennial International Symposium on Aviation Psychology (ISAP) has been convened for the purposes of (a) presenting the latest rese...

Forensic Engineering: The Art and Craft of a Failure Detective synthesizes the current academic knowledge, with advances in process and techniques ...

Published in 1998, culture forms a complex framework of national, organizational, and professional attitudes and values within which groups and ind...

The focus of this book is on how experts adapt to complexity, synthesize and interpret information in context, and transform or fuse disparate item...

First published in 1999, this book provides answers to many of the problems associated with the design and application of auditory warnings. It rep...

Most frauds perpetrated by senior managers take longer to uncover than those by other occupational groups and they steal more. This is a serious pr...

Intelligibility is the ultimate goal of human communication. However, measuring it objectively remained elusive until the 1940s when physicist Harv...

The broad and developing scope of ergonomics - the application of scientific knowledge to improve peoples interaction with products, systems and en...

Presenting the proceedings of the Ergonomics Society's annual conference, the series embraces the wide range of topics covered by ergonomics. Indiv...

Intense pressures pose considerable challenges to executives striving to succeed in an environment of increasing volatility, uncertainty, complexit...

Building Safe Systems in Aviation provides a single source for those who need to progress beyond current models of Crew Resource Management (CRM) t...