Ergonomics Books

  1. Human Factors and Ergonomics Design Handbook

    Human Factors and Ergonomics Design Handbook

    Human Factors and Ergonomics Design Handbook offers complete coverage of the latest trends and advances in ergonomics and psychology and lays out practical applications for today's designers. Written by a team of experts, Human Factors and Ergonomics Design Handbook, Third Edition, shows how to maximize functionality while reducing injuries and minimizing the impact on physical and psychological health. The ubiquitous use of smartphones, tablets, and other high-tech equipment is discussed in full detail. New chapters explain medical systems, robotics, handheld devices, cognitive workload, and the motion environment.

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    Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics

    Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics aims to serve the needs of the human factors and ergonomics researchers, practitioners, and graduate students. Each chapter has a strong theory and scientific base, but is heavily focused on real world applications.

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    Red Dot Design Yearbook 2008/2009

    With numerous illustrations, practical background information, and extensive interviews with the designers, "living" and "doing" offer a comprehensive overview of current innovations and trends. Consumers are thereby given the unique chance to decide for themselves, individually, on the best design.

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    Human Factors Design Handbook

    Practical guidelines for the Ergonomic Design of Products and Facilities Youll find: Key Descisions to make at the conceptual design stage; Diagrams, charts and checklists; Data on cognitive skills, sensory capacities, mobility, strength, and dexterity; Tables of Engineering unit conversions and scientific constants; Designs that "fit the user"; Human Body size, reach, strength, reaction time, environmental stress resistance.

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    Human Factors In Engineering and Design

    Written for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, as well as for practicing professionals, the book combines an emphasis on the empirical research basis of human factors with comprehensive coverage of basic concepts in the field of human factors and ergonomics.

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    Ergonomics For Beginners: A Quick Reference Guide

    A revised and updated edition of a Dutch classic, the Vademecum Ergonomie (originally published in 1963, translated in 1991 by Kluwer Bedrijfswetenschappen, and subsequently published in 1993 by Taylor & Francis) offers an introduction to workplace ergonomics. Covers basic ergonomics and its social significance; posture and movement; information and operation; environmental factors; work organization; and ergonomic design and acquisition.

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    Kodaks Ergonomic Design for People at Work

    This newly updated, single-volume edition of the most respected and widely used guidelines to ergonomics in the workplace, Kodak's Ergonomic Design for People at Work, offers a concise and straightforward presentation of information, data, and how-to guidelines for implementing solutions to human factors and ergonomics problems in industries worldwide.