Ergonomics

Time-pressed, professionals looking for practical guidance to shape their current or future safety programs should use this book. Pre-Accident Inve...

Reliability, Risk and Safety: Back to the Future covers topics on reliability, risk and safety issues, including risk and reliability analysis meth...

The World Wide Web has undergone tremendous growth since the first edition of Web Wisdom: How to Evaluate and Create Information Quality on the Web...

In this book the author applies contemporary error theory to the needs of investigators and of anyone attempting to understand why someone made a c...

Experimental Learning and Innovation Environments, such as Living Labs, Field Labs, and Urban Innovation Labs, are increasingly used to connect mul...

Experimental Learning and Innovation Environments, such as Living Labs, Field Labs, and Urban Innovation Labs, are increasingly used to connect mul...

Ergonomics is concerned with the fit between people and their work. With an increasing number of people becoming conscious about their health and p...

This book departs from the assumption that Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems will provide a maximum advantage by replacing human cognitive proce...

While hydrogen is of vital and growing importance in many industrial sectors, this volatile substance poses unique challenges, including easy leaka...

This book is a practical guide for individuals interested in exploring and implementing smart home applications using Python. Comprising six chapte...

A succinct guide to a Human Factors programme of work This book provides a reference for project managers to assist in identifying the key rudiment...

Distributed Cognition and Reality puts theory into practice, as the first book to show how to apply the Perceptual Cycle Model in aviation decision...

There are many guidelines, protocols and advisories that outline how biosafety and biosecurity can be adopted by institutions around the world. Whi...

This is the fifth book published within the Ashgate Studies in Resilience Engineering series. The first volume introduced resilience engineering br...

This captivating book explores the intersection where performing arts meetshuman interaction and delves into the application of human factors princ...

Supplying a breadth and depth of coverage beyond that found in most traditional texts, Introduction to Human Factors and Ergonomics for Engineers, ...

This is a comprehensive, but accessible text that introduces students to the fields of human factors and ergonomics. The book is intended for under...

Distributed Situation Awareness explains how teams of people work together in simple and complex systems. For example, drivers, motorcyclists, cycl...

Includes Case Studies from a Range of Event Sites Introduction to Crowd Science examines the growing rate of crowd-related accidents and incidents ...

Software Designers in Action: A Human-Centric Look at Design Work examines how developers actually perform software design in their day-to-day work...

A Complete Toolbox of Theories and TechniquesThe second edition of a bestseller, Handbook of Virtual Environments: Design, Implementation, and Appl...

The objective of Contemporary Research: Models, Methodologies, and Measures in Distributed Team Cognition is to advance knowledge in terms of real-...

This book is devoted to the examination of emerging practical issues related to automated and autonomous systems. The book highlights the significa...

This book deals with the central question of how human factors and ergonomics (HFE) might contribute to solutions for the more sustainable developm...

Over the last 50 years, the theory and the methods of reliability analysis have developed significantly. Therefore, it is very important to the rel...

Thanks to advances in computer technology in the last twenty years, navigation system, cabin environment control, ACC, advanced driver assistance s...

Biomechanics of Human Motion: Applications in the Martial Arts, Second Edition, explores the biomechanical principles of nine different forms of ma...

Today, engineering systems are an important element of the world economy and each year billions of dollars are spent to develop, manufacture, opera...

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

Edited by Jussi Kantola, the founding faculty member of the worlds first university Knowledge Service Engineering Department at Korea Advanced Inst...

Assistive technologies for the old and people with disabilities is now a very active field of research. It also constitutes a very profitable marke...