Future Of Ergonomics Research Articles

Ergonomics: Past, Present and Future

The document marks the most important progress acquired, as well as the numerous pressing challenges in the area of Ergonomics and the profession on the road to its development and consolidation. In this context, the manuscript also highlights our own experience, including the approaches or actions taken, which have ultimately achieved the Project's main objectives with regard to the ergonomist profession. To understand the present and future of ergonomics, we need to understand its past, to know the premises of Ergonomics in Romania, the world evolution of Ergonomics, the current stage of Ergonomics in our country, the future of ergonomics and the current contribution to Ergonomics by completing the Project objectives concerning the profession of ergonomist.

特集①：分野別人間工学の現状と将来（12）

特集①：分野別人間工学の現状と将来（12）

特集①：分野別人間工学の現状と将来（10）―衣服分野における人間工学研究の現状と将来展望―

特集①：分野別人間工学の現状と将来（10）―衣服分野における人間工学研究の現状と将来展望―

特集①：分野別人間工学の現状と将来（13）

特集①：分野別人間工学の現状と将来（13）

特集①：分野別人間工学の現状と将来（15）

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特集①：分野別人間工学の現状と将来（11）－システマティックレビューによるスポーツ人間工学研究の俯瞰

特集①：分野別人間工学の現状と将来（11）－システマティックレビューによるスポーツ人間工学研究の俯瞰

特集①：分野別人間工学の現状と将来（14）

特集①：分野別人間工学の現状と将来（14）

한국인간공학 40년 성과와 과제 그리고 미래 40년의 전망

For the commemoration of 40 years of Industrial Engineering in Korea, Ergonomics in Korea for the last 40 years are presented in this paper. Historical backgrounds, past achievements, and key historical landmarks are explained and analyzed. In addition, a keyword content analyses on the 1,005 titles from the research paper published from 1983 to 2014 are conducted to display the structural patterns of the changes of research focus of the ergonomics in Korea. Finally, some important perspectives with regard to the prospects for the future of ergonomics in Korea are also summarized.

特集①：分野別人間工学の現状と将来（7）

特集①：分野別人間工学の現状と将来（7）

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特集①：分野別人間工学の現状と将来（5）

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「特集①：分野別人間工学の現状と将来」にあたって

特集①：分野別人間工学の現状と将来（9）

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Prospective ergonomics: origin, goal, and prospects

So far ergonomics has been concerned with two categories of activities: correction and design. We propose to add a third category: prospection, and by so doing, we introduce a new series of activities that opens up the future of ergonomics. Corrective ergonomics relates to the past and comes with a demand and a client. It is turned towards the correction of existing situations and aims to reduce or eliminate problems. Here, after delimiting and defining the problem, the challenge is to find the best solution. Ergonomics for design relates to the present and also comes with a demand and a client. It is turned towards the design of new artefacts that have already been identified by a client, and that will allow users to do some activity and attain their goals. Here, after defining the scope of the project and the functional requirements, the challenge is to do the best design. Finally, prospective ergonomics relates to the future and does not come with a demand and a client. It is turned towards the creation of future things that have not been identified yet. Here the challenge is to detect existing user needs or anticipate future ones, and imagine solutions. These three categories of activities overlap and are not exclusive of each other. In this paper we define prospective ergonomics and compare it with corrective ergonomics and ergonomics for design. We describe its origin, goal, and prospects, we analyze its impacts on education and practice, and we emphasize the need of new collaboration between ergonomics and other disciplines.

Cognitive ergonomics: a multidisciplinary venture

Comments on the present value of Bartlett, F.C., 1962. The future of ergonomics. Ergonomics, 5, 505–511.

Emerging challenges to the ergonomics domain

The future of ergonomics will depend on how well the domain manages to embrace the challenges of emerging areas requiring scientific research and the success of disseminating the results of the res...

The Complexities of Musculoskeletal Disorders, Untangling the Web

Two invited speakers will provide their insights into the future of ergonomics, low back pain, and musculoskeletal exposure assessment. Dr. Marras will provide a broad overview of the current and future challenges of understanding the development of low back disorders and how to control them in the workplace. Dr. Mathiassen will be providing insights into how variability in ergonomic exposures plays a role in the development of musculoskeletal disorders.

Extended cognition and the future of ergonomics

Ergonomics, as the science of work, carries with it an implicit definition of work. Due to the technological development, the nature of work has changed significantly even in the time since ergonomics became established as a science. One response was the change from classical to cognitive ergonomics in the beginning of the 1980s. Cognition, however, is itself the subject of change, most clearly in the transition from cognition in the mind to cognition in the world, with the associated notion of distributed cognition. It is argued that one may be facing yet another change, represented by the notion of extended cognition, which refers to the way in which people use technological and cognitive artefacts to improve their ability to control a situation. Since the information society both increases the number of artefacts one can use, and raises the demands to being in control, the notion of extended cognition can provide a way both to identify the impending problems and outline the solutions.