
eBook - ePub
Ergonomics
How to Design for Ease and Efficiency
- 756 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Ergonomics
How to Design for Ease and Efficiency
About this book
Ergonomics: How to Design for Ease and Efficiency, Third Edition updates and expands this classic guide, including the latest essential themes and regulations. An introductory section provides all of the physical and mental ergonomics theory engineers, designers, and managers need for a range of applications. The following section provides authoritative advice on how to design for the human in a range of real world situations, now including new content on subjects including the individual within an organization, planning for space journeys, taking back control from autonomous systems, and design for aging.
Retaining its easy-to-use layout and jargon-free style, this book remains an invaluable source of models, measures and advice for anyone who needs to understand ergonomics.
- Updated throughout to address new research on themes, including haptics, autonomous vehicles, and circadian rhythms
- Includes discussions of the physical (anthropometric, biomechanical) and mental capacities of the human, along with tables of reference data
- Provides both managerial and engineering recommendations, covering aspects of ergonomics that are relevant across the project
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Yes, you can access Ergonomics by Katrin Kroemer Elbert,Henrike B. Kroemer,Anne D. Kroemer Hoffman in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Technology & Engineering & Industrial Engineering. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Preface to the Third Edition
- Using This Book
- Introducing Ergonomics and Human Factors Engineering
- Section I: The Ergonomic Knowledge Base
- Section II: Design Applications
- Section III: Further Information