| Recent years have seen rapid
advances in the technology available for use in
offices. Very often this rate of advance has
outstripped our understanding of how best to use
the new technology and our appreciation of the
effects that this new technology has on those
that use it. Ergonomics
in Computerized Offices explains in clear
language the procedures that should be adopted to
remove these problems. More importantly, the book
explains how the problems can be avoided in the
first place, by the appreciation and application
of correct ergonomic principles and practice. The
book assumes no previous understanding of human
factors engineering and introduces the principles
against a background of relevant human physiology
and psychology.
This approach, allied to
the author's unrivalled expertise and experience,
makes this book an excellent introduction to the
subject for students of industrial engineering
and design, ergonomics, computing and
occupational psychology. It should also prove
valuable to practising designers and office
managers.
Professor Etienne
Grandjean has been one of the leading figures
in Ergonomics in Europe for over 30 years. Born
in 1914 in Berne, he obtained his MD in 1939 and
became Director of the Institute for Hygiene and
Work Physiology at the Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology (ETH), Zurich in 1950, where he
remained until his retirement in 1983. His main
research interests were in sitting posture,
fatigue, working conditions in industries, indoor
climate, noise and for the last decade in VDT
workstations.
Professor Grandjean was
General Secretary to the International Ergonomics
Association between 1961 and 1970, and is
currently deeply involved in organizing the
biennial Ergodesign conferences in Montreux.
Professor Grandjean has published some 300
scientific papers and edited numerous books. He
has written two other books in English: Ergonomics
of the home, published in 1973; and the
classic textbook Fitting the task to the Man,
which was originally published in German in 1963
and translated into English in 1969, and has
since been revised and updated regularly and
translated into seven other languages.
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