Contemporary ergonomics 1998 : proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Ergonomics Society : Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, 1-3 April 1998

this Series Provides A Fast Track For Publication Of Suitable Papers From International Contributors. The Papers Are Chosen On The Basis Of Abstracts Submitted To A Selection Pannel In The Autumn Prior To The Conference. in Addition To Mainstream Ergonomists And Human Factor Specialists, Contemporary Ergonomicswill Appeal To All Those Who Have An Interest In Peoples Interaction With Their Working And Leisure Environment Including: Designers, Manufacturing And Production Engineers, Health And Safety Specialists, Organisational, Applied And Engineering Psychologists. booknews proceedings Of An April 1998 Conference, With Sections On Musculoskeletal Disorders, Manual Handling, Posture, Office Ergonomics, New Technology, Work Stress, Teleworking, Team Working, Work Design, System Design And Analysis, Information Systems, Design Methods, Design And Usability, And Interface Design. Other Subjects Include Warnings, Verbal Protocol Analysis, Participatory Ergonomics, Industrial And Military Applications, Air Traffic Management, Drivers And Driving, Noise And Vibration, Hand Tools, Thermal Environments, Communicating And Ergonomics, And General Ergonomics. Annotation C. By Book News, Inc., Portland, Or. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 Ergonomics standards;the good, the bad and the ugly......Page 18 International standardisation of graphical symbols for consumer products......Page 23 The UK human factors defence standard: past, present and future......Page 28 The role of physical aspects......Page 36 The combined effects of physical and psychosocial work factors......Page 40 The role of psychosocial factors......Page 45 Interpreting the extent of musculoskeletal complaints......Page 51 People in pain......Page 56 Prevention of musculoskeletal disorders in the workplace;a strategy for UK research......Page 61 A musculoskeletal risk screening tool for automotive line managers......Page 66 Risk assessment design for musculoskeletal disorders in healthcare professionals......Page 71 Ergonomic microscopes;solutions for the cyto-screener?......Page 76 Musculoskeletal discomfort from dancing in nightclubs......Page 81 Is the ergonomic approach advocated in the Manual Handling Regulations being adopted?......Page 87 Control of manual handling risks within a soft drinks distribution centre......Page 92 Training and patient-handling: an investigation of transfer......Page 97 Risk management in manual handling for community nurses......Page 102 Children's natural lifting patterns: an observational study......Page 107 Manual handling and lifting during the later stages of pregnancy......Page 111 Posture analysis and manual handling in nursery professionals......Page 116 Can orthotics play a beneficial role during loaded and unloaded walking?......Page 123 Investigation of spinal curvature while changing one's posture during sitting......Page 128 The effect of load size and form on trunk asymmetry while lifting......Page 133 The effect of vertical visual target location on head and neck posture......Page 138 Is a prescription of physical changes sufficient to eliminate health and safety problems in computerised offices?......Page 145 An evaluation of a trackball as an ergonomic intervention......Page 150 Old methods, new chairs. Evaluating six of the latest ergonomic chairs for the modern office......Page 155 Development of a questionnaire to measure attitudes towards virtual reality......Page 161 Orientation of blind users on the World Wide Web......Page 166 ~Flash, splash and crash~: Human factors and the implementation of innovative Web technologies......Page 171 Determining ergonomic factors in stress from work demands of nurses......Page 177 A risk assessment and control cycle approach to managing workplace stress......Page 182 Teleworking: Assessing the risks......Page 189 Evaluating teleworking;case study......Page 194 Team organisational mental models: an integrative framework for research......Page 201 The impact of ITT on virtual team working in the European automotive industry......Page 206 The effect of communication processes upon workers and job efficiency......Page 213 A case study of job design in a steel plant......Page 218 The effects of age and habitual physical activity on the adjustment to nocturnal shiftwork......Page 223 Job design for university technicians: work activity and allocation of function......Page 228 Allocation of functions and manufacturing job design based on knowledge requirements......Page 235 The need to specify cognition within system requirements......Page 240 Analysis of complex communication tasks......Page 245 Health and safety as the basis for specifying information systems design requirements......Page 251 Cognitive algorithms......Page 256 Rapid prototyping in foam of 3D anthropometric computer models in functional postures......Page 263 The use of high and low level prototyping methods for product user interfaces......Page 268 Creative collaboration in engineering design teams......Page 273 Pleasure and product semantics......Page 279 A survey of usability practice and needs in Europe......Page 284 Cultural influence in usability assessment......Page 289 Interface display designs based on operator knowledge requirements......Page 295 Understanding what makes icons effective: how subjective ratings can inform design......Page 300 Representing uncertainty in decision support systems: the state of the art......Page 305 Representing reliability of at-risk information in tactical displays for fighter pilots......Page 310 Semantic content analysis of task conformance......Page 315 Warnings: a task-oriented design approach......Page 321 Effects of auditorily-presented warning signal words on intended carefulness......Page 326 Listeners' understanding of warning signal words......Page 331 Perceived hazard and understandability of signal words and warning pictorials by Chinese community in Britain......Page 336 Thinking about thinking aloud......Page 343 Adjusting the cognitive walkthrough using the think-aloud method......Page 348 Verbal protocol data for heart and lung bypass scenario simulation ~scripts~......Page 353 Use of verbal protocol analysis in the investigation of an order picking task......Page 358 Selecting areas for intervention......Page 365 Participatory ergonomics in the construction industry......Page 370 User trial of a manual handling problem and its ~solution~......Page 375 Case study: a human factors safety assessment of a heavy lift operation......Page 381 The application of ergonomics to volume high quality sheet printing and finishing......Page 386 The application of human factors tools and techniques to the specification of an oil refinery process controller role......Page 391 Feasibility study of containerisation for Travelling Post Office operations......Page 396 The complexities of stress in the operational military environment......Page 403 The development of physical selection procedures. Phase 1: job analysis......Page 408 The human factor in applied warfare......Page 413 Getting the picture;Investigating the mental picture of the air traffic controller......Page 419 Developing a predictive model of controller workload in air traffic management......Page 424 Assessing the capacity of Europe's airspace: The issues, experience and a method using a controller workload model......Page 429 Evaluation of virtual prototypes for air traffic control;the MACAW technique......Page 434 Development of an integrated decision making model for avionics application......Page 439 Psychophysiological measures of fatigue and somnolence in simulated air traffic control......Page 444 What's skill got to do with it? Vehicle automation and driver mental workload......Page 451 The use of automatic speech recognition in cars: a human factors review......Page 456 Integration of the HMI for driver systems: classifying functionality and dialogue......Page 461 Subjective symptoms of fatigue among commercial drivers......Page 466 How did I get here? Driving without attention mode......Page 471 Seniors' driving style and overtaking: is there a ~comfortable traffic hole~?......Page 476 Speed limitation and driver behaviour......Page 481 The ergonomics implications of conventional saloon car cabins on police drivers......Page 486 The design of seat belts for tractors......Page 491 Auditory distraction in the workplace: a review of the implications from laboratory studies......Page 497 Transmission of shear vibration through gloves......Page 502 The effect of wrist posture on attenuation of vibration in the hand-arm system......Page 507 Criteria for selection of hand tools in the aircraft manufacturing industry: a review......Page 513 Exposure assessment of ice cream scooping tasks......Page 518 The effect of clothing fit on the clothing Ventilation Index......Page 525 A thermoregulatory model for predicting transient thermal sensation......Page 530 The user-oriented design, development and evaluation of the clothing envelope of thermal performance......Page 535 A comparison of the thermal comfort of different wheelchair seating materials and an office chair......Page 540 The effect of repeated exposure to extreme heat by fire training officers......Page 545 The effects of self-contained breathing apparatus on gas exchange and heart rate during fire-fighter simulations......Page 550 The effect of external air speed on the clothing ventilation index......Page 555 Commercial planning and ergonomics......Page 561 Human factors and design: Bridging the communication gap......Page 566 Guidelines for addressing ergonomics in development aid......Page 571 Determining and evaluating ergonomic training needs for design engineers......Page 575 Ergonomic ideals vs genuine constraints......Page 580 Another look at Hick-Hyman's reaction time law......Page 587 Design relevance of usage centred studies at odds with their scientific status?......Page 592 The integration of human factors considerations into safety and risk assessment systems......Page 597 The use of defibrillator devices by the lay public......Page 602 Occupational disorders in Ghanaian subsistence farmers......Page 607 AUTHOR INDEX......Page 614 SUBJECT INDEX......Page 618