Prospective Ergonomics.

Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Perspectives and Transitions in Ergonomics -- 1.1. History and definition of ergonomics -- 1.2. Classification and positioning of ergonomics -- 1.2.1. Ergonomics classified according to domain -- 1.2.2. Ergonomics classified according to intervention -- 1.2.3. Ergonomics classified according to focus -- 1.2.4. Ergonomics classified according to specialization -- 1.3. A systems approach in ergonomics -- 1.4. Design-driven versus a human-centered approach -- 1.5. Focus on performance and well-being -- 2. Management and Ergonomic Approaches toward Innovation and Design -- 2.1. History and definition of strategy -- 2.2. Management and design frameworks supporting PE -- 2.2.1. Technology push versus market pull -- 2.2.2. Philosophical worldviews -- 2.2.3. Four perspectives on strategy -- 2.3. Aligning generic strategies with innovation approaches through worldview perspectives -- 2.3.1. A technology-driven innovation approach based on a generic classical strategy -- 2.3.2. A design-driven innovation approach based on a generic systemic strategy -- 2.3.3. A user-driven innovation approach based on a generic processual strategy -- 2.3.4. A market-driven innovation approach based on a generic evolutionary strategy -- 2.4. Toward integrated thinking in PE: relating C-K design theory, generic strategies and design reasoning models -- 2.4.1. C-K design theory -- 2.4.2. Six models of design reasoning -- 2.5. A PSS perspective -- 2.5.1. Impact of global economic changes on work systems -- 2.5.2. HF and cultural diversity -- 2.5.3. Demographic change -- 2.5.4. Influence of ICT in shaping future living -- 2.5.5. The need for innovation to enhance competitiveness -- 2.5.6. Sustainability and CSR -- 3. Ergonomic Interventions on Management Frameworks.

3.1. A comparison of ergonomic interventions with strategic design and management perspectives -- 3.2. Ergonomic interventions on management frameworks -- 3.2.1. Ergonomic domains, interventions and specializations contextualized within push-pull innovation initiatives -- 3.2.2. Ergonomic domains, interventions and specializations contextualized within four strategy perspectives -- 3.2.3. Ergonomic domains, interventions and specializations contextualized within Ansoff's product-market matrix -- 3.2.4. Ergonomic domains, interventions and specializations contextualized within the value creation product positioning map -- 3.2.5. Ergonomic domains, interventions and specializations contextualized within design-driven innovation -- 3.2.6. Ergonomic interventions contextualized within a co-creation framework for design research and practice -- 3.3. Summary -- 4. Research Organization -- 4.1. Overview -- 4.2. What is case study research and how can it be applied here? -- 4.3. Description and interpretation of dimensions of analysis -- 4.4. Preparing cases and summarizing terminologies -- worldviews, modes of design reasoning, generic strategies and interventions -- 5. Analysis of 12 Design Case Studies -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Analysis of cases within corrective ergonomic intervention -- 5.2.1. USB memory stick for customer recruitment (USB) -- 5.2.2 Anthropometric considerations for embarkation and disembarkation at bus shelters (BUS SHELTER) -- 5.2.3. Digital human models in work system design and simulation (DHM) -- 5.3. Analysis of cases within preventive ergonomic intervention -- 5.3.1. Mail production: the NPS -- 5.3.2. Classroom system for elementary school students (Classr. Sys.) -- 5.3.3. Interior concepts for small-space living (ICSSL) -- 5.3.4. Interior customization of Singapore fast-response police car (ICSFRC).

5.3.5. Rucksack bag design to facilitate optimum loading (RBD Karrimor) -- 5.4. Analysis of cases within prospective ergonomic intervention -- 5.4.1. Product planning versus product positioning (PP versus PP) -- 5.4.2. Monitoring fish health project (Fish Health) -- 5.4.3. Development of culture-driven design concepts (Culture DCC) -- 5.4.4. CAD as an idea and concept generation tool in the early design stages (CAD Tool) -- 6. Cross-Comparison of Cases -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Cross-comparison of cases within the context of deliberate/planned processes and targeted outcomes profit maximization/problem solving -- 6.3. Cross-comparison of cases within the context of emergent processes and targeted outcomes: profit maximization/problem solving -- 6.4. Cross-comparison of cases within the context of deliberate processes and pluralistic outcomes -- 6.5. Comparison of case clusters across the four quadrants -- 6.6. Qualitative analysis of cases according to intervention, worldviews, models of design reasoning and generic strategies -- 7. Discussion -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. Orientation -- 7.3. Processes and methods -- 7.4. Practices -- 7.5. Value creation -- 7.6. Implications for design education -- 7.6.1. A PE intervention on mass education, rationalization and industrial design education -- 7.6.2. A PE view on how to link research and education -- 7.6.3. Globalization of HE -- 7.6.4. Increased collaboration with industry and commercialization of research -- 7.6.5. The need for industrial design education and research to adapt to future developments in HE -- 7.7. General perspectives on PE and strategic design -- 7.8. Author's perspectives on PE and strategic design -- Conclusion and Further Research -- Introduction -- Reflections on the research questions -- Future research -- Healthcare and welfare design -- Inclusive design -- Service design.

Interaction design within the context of culture, acculturation and globalization -- Aesthetics and experience design -- Transportation design -- Summary of future research directions, relevant for prospective ergonomics -- Bibliography -- Index -- Other titles from iSTE in Information Systems, Web and Pervasive Computing -- EULA.

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