| This bestselling textbook has now
been fully revised and updated from its original
1990 edition. Comprising a compendium of
ergonomics methods and techniques which is both
broad and deep, it covers every aspect of human
work and is carefully designed and written to
accompany and complement other texts on
ergonomics and human factors principles and
theory. New and old readers alike will be
delighted by the revision of chapters on the
framework and context of methodology, the
observation of performance, task analysis,
experimental and study design, data collection,
product assessment, environmental assessment,
environmental assessment, measurement of work and
the evaluation of work systems (human-computer
interface, computer-aided design and work
stress). There are five entirely new chapters on
control room ergonomics, psychophysiological
functions, ergonomics risk assessment, fieldwork
and participatory work design. The editors have
once again brought together a team of
world-renowned experts and created a forum for
them to introduce their most valued techniques
and methods. Readers
of Evaluation of Human Work will be as
diverse as its contents. They may be students
seeking an introduction for ergonomics
investigation; industrial, business, or
human-service-oriented professonals seeking an
understanding of what ergomomics can offer; or
qualified ergonomists seeking to inform their
practice. All will find it interesting: to many
it will become an invaluable resource.
John R. Wilson is
Professor of Occupational Ergonomics in the
Department of Manufacturing Engineering and
Operations Management, Nottingham University, and
also Director of the University's Institute for
Occupational Ergonomics and of the Virtual
Reality Applications Research Team (VIRART). He
is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Applied
Ergonomics, and recipient of the 1995 Sir
Frederic Bartlett Medal of the Ergonomics
Society.
Professor E. Nigel
Corlett was formely Head of the Department of
Production Engineering and Operations Management
at the University of Nottingham and Professor of
Industrial Ergonomics at the University of
Birmingham. He is now Scientific Adviser to the
Institute for Occupational Ergonomics at the
University of Nottingham. His research has been
devoted to improving the conditions of work. He
is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering,
a Chartered Psychologist and an Honorary Fellow
of the Ergonomics Society. He is President of the
Centre for the Registration of European
Ergonomists.
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