background: ergonomics standards play an important role in product and system design as it can improve their usability; provide comfort and safety for the users. the number of musculoskeletal diseases has increased in recent years in malaysia. however, the awareness and importance of ergonomics in malaysia is still very low among the industries. many ergonomics standards have been adopted by si...

Regular use of computers in the workspace contributes to suffering from many risk factors associated with musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). Ergonomic principles is a determining factor comfort and increased worker productivity at work. Ergonomics also very important for workers who computers. Working high variety complaints, including having three biggest factors: back posture, repetition, stat...

This paper presents a protocol for work distress assessment. Work distress is defined as a merge between nonergonomic related aspects, in tasks or environment, and adversely conditions perceived for a worker, in a certain work situation. This frame requires an approach that can treat individuals and organizational factors in the same way, at the same time. For this, we elaborate a psycho-ergono...

http://hfs.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/11/28/0018720812467367 The online version of this article can be found at: DOI: 10.1177/0018720812467367 November 2012 published online 29 Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Nathan C. Perry, Mark W. Wiggins, Merilyn Childs and Gerard Fogarty Acquisition of Decision-Making Skills The Application of Reduced-Processing D...

http://hfs.sagepub.com/content/54/6/1008 The online version of this article can be found at: DOI: 10.1177/0018720812443983 published online 1 May 2012 2012 54: 1008 originally Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Karen M. Feigh, Michael C. Dorneich and Caroline C. Hayes System Designers Toward a Characterization of Adaptive Systems : A Framework for Researchers...

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Product and interaction designers are important beneficiaries of ergonomics research. The availability of ergonomics data, guidelines, models, methods, techniques and case studies which could be used during the design process is immense. Despite this, a review of the literature suggests that these resources are not exploited or effectively implemented within the design process due to cultural d...

Musculoskeletal disorders continue to be a major source of disability and lost work time. Understanding their causes, and especially those that are work-related, remains the key to primary prevention. This set of in-depth reviews considers the problem from a number of systems needs and viewpoints. Assessing the exposure of workers to known risk factors is essential and appropriate methods are r...