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Comment on Ergonomically Designed! by Ferg

Ferg — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:56:27 +0000

I think you are right Duncan, a ‘certified ergonomic’ stamp is a great idea particularly as an extension of the existing Ergonomics Society (or IEHF) accreditation scheme. Has something like this ever been attempted in the past?

Comment on Ergonomically Designed! by Duncan Robertson

Duncan Robertson — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:35:44 +0000

Spot on. It’s time we as ergonomists started to take some ‘ownership’ of our discipline. Until we have in place an official Ergonomics society (or IEHF) ’stamp’ on a product to confirm it is ‘ergonomically designed’ the phrase will remain just one of many standard lines that can stated by marketing men. The result is those products which have genuinely had ergo input being lost amongst the plefora of those which have not.

Comment on About Us by Mark Young

Mark Young — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:29:06 +0000

That’s a very timely question – there’s a relatively recent movement in the field towards ‘neuroergonomics’, being led by one of the eminent names in ergonomics, Raja Parasuraman (see http://archlab.gmu.edu/people/rparasur/Neuroergonomics.htm). This is about using neuroscience measures for ergonomic applications – such as attention or mental workload in complex systems design – and is very much influenced by the psychological side of ergonomics. My feeling is that this will be a growth area, as engineers and designers increasingly turn to ergonomists for quantifiable measures of performance.

Comment on About Us by Helen Charman

Helen Charman — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:31:23 +0000

As a lay person I’m interested to learn how neuroscience has ‘interfaced’ with real world ergonomic design – that is, to what extent do our neurological processes shape ergonomic design?

Comment on “So that’s my fault…” by Did Ergonomics Let Down The License Payer? - Ferg’s Blog

Did Ergonomics Let Down The License Payer? - Ferg’s Blog — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:21:55 +0000

[...] in person or over the phone. To our mind this is a similar symptom of poor ergonomics to that of “User Self Blame” discussed in our last post: In this case the issue is of users being held responsible for how [...]

Comment on “So that’s my fault…” by Did Ergonomics Let Down The Liscense Payer? - Real World Design

Did Ergonomics Let Down The Liscense Payer? - Real World Design — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:31:24 +0000

[...] our mind this is a similar symptom of poor ergonomics to that of “User Self Blame” discussed in our last post: In this case the issue is of users being held responsible for how [...]