Ergonomics and Personal Safety - Topics in Usability






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Topics in Usability
Ergonomics and Personal Safety

Personal Ergonomics General Human Factors Anthropometrics

Personal Ergonomics

Desktop Yoga - A series of exercises that can be performed at your desk

Interfaces by Cramer - Ergonomic office products. The web site includes resources on repetitive stress injuries as well as products for sale such as keyboards and chairs

Preventing and Healing Carpal Tunnel Syndrome & Repetitive Stress Injuries - by Ellen Serber. Includes illustrations of exercises

Sorehand - research center on CTS and RSI

Spine-Health - Hundreds of articles about back pain and neck pain, in particular several focused on ergonomics and posture, including tips on choosing the right office furniture. The site is non-commercial, and all of the articles are peer reviewed by members of the site's Medical Advisory Board (similar to a medical journal review process).

Working in Comfort - Hewlett Packard guide to personal ergonomics. In 16 languages

Ergonomic Keyboards - These links are to products have been recommended by postings on usability lists

General Human Factors and Ergonomics

ErgoWeb - Resources in ergonomics

Usernomics - Workplace Ergonomics links. Scroll down on this page for an excellent list of links in ergonomics, biometrics and related topics

Chaffin, D. B, Martin, B, J, Andersson, G. B, Occupational Biomechanics, John Wiley and Sons, 1999

Eastman Kodak Co, Workplace, Equipment, and Environmental Design and Information Transfer, Volume 1, Ergonomic Design for People at Work John Wiley & Sons, 1989

Eastman Kodak Co, Ergonomic Design for People at Work: Volume 2 John Wiley & Sons, 1989

Sanders, M. S. and McCormick, E. J. Human Factors in Engineering and Design (7th ed.). McGraw-Hill, NH, 1993.

Wickens, C. D., Gordon, S. E., and Liu, Y. An Introduction to Human Factors Engineering. Addison-Wesley (Longman Imprint): New York, NY, 1998.

Anthropometrics

Roebuck, J. A. Anthropometric Methods: Designing to Fit the Human Body
Describes traditional and new technology for performing human body measurements, summarizing anthropometric data, and analyzing and presenting those data prior to integration into simulations. From HFES

Pheasant, S. Bodyspace : Anthropometry, Ergonomics and the Design of the Work, Taylor & Francis, 1996

Diffrient, Niels, Tilley, Alvin R., and Bardagjy, Joan Humanscale 1/2/3, January 1974 - a series of templates of anthropometric data for the 5th-90th percentile population.

Diffrient, Niels, Harmon, David, Tilley, Alvin R., and Bardagjy, Joan Humanscale 4/5/6, October 1981 - a series of templates of anthropometric data for the 5th-90th percentile population.

Diffrient, Niels, Tilley, Alvin R., and Bardagjy, Joan Humanscale 7/8/9, October 1982 - a series of templates of anthropometric data for the 5th-90th percentile population.

Please note that the Humanscale series of books is out of print. These are products of Henry Dreyfuss Associates. Visit Henry Dreyfus Associates website.