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Informationen zum Autor Peter Vink Zusammenfassung An exploration of how ergonomics can contribute to the solution of important societal and engineering challenges, Advances in Social and Organizational Factors discusses the optimization of sociotechnical systems, including their organizational structures, policies, and processes. It includes coverage of communication, crew resource management, work design, design of working times, teamwork, participatory design, community ergonomics, cooperative work, new work paradigms, organizational culture, virtual organizations, telework, and quality management. The book provides research on urban infrastructures and how to shape urban spaces, including stadiums and museums. It covers warning systems in cars, voice-based interfaces, and the positive effects on manufacturing processes available from health informatics and management systems. Several chapters examine the role human factors can play in counter-terrorism efforts and in interpreting deceptive behaviors. They provide suggestions on how to improve enterprise resource planning systems and stress the importance of lifelong learning, personalized learning, and work-life balance. The book also highlights issues with special populations, detailing how to design and adapt products and work situations for these groups. In addition to exploring the challenges faced in optimizing sociotechnical systems, the book underlines themes that play a role in all the challenges and how they are linked to each other. It concludes with an exploration of emotional ergonomics and the important positive effects of making people happy and healthy. With chapter authors from around the globe, the book supplies a broad look at current challenges and possible solutions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Section I: Perception and Design of Spaces; Chapter 1: Desirable Features of Contemporary Domestic Kitchen; Chapter 2: An Exploration about Interior Ambience Based on User-centered Design Approach; Chapter 3: Architecture as an Expression of Equity Polices in Manufacturing Plants in Poland; Chapter 4: Paradise Ambiance in Interactive Art: A Case Study of the National Palace Museum in Taipei; Chapter 5: Laboratory Kitchen and “Existenzminimum” Dwellings; Chapter 6: Intercultural Differences in the Formation of Space of the Courtroom; Chapter 7: Using Mental Models and Ergonomics to Analyze Chinese Opera Performing Skills; Chapter 8: Perceptual Mechanisms of Transparency Recognition as Measures of Increased Human Spatial Orientation; Chapter 9: The Issue of the Range of Vision in Design of Grandstands at the Contemporary Stadiums; Chapter 10: The Application of Optical Illusions in Interior Design in Order to Improve the Visual Size and Proportions of the Rooms; Chapter 11: Large Scale Architecture. Design Human Factors and Ergonomics Aspects Based on State-of-the-Art Structures; Chapter 12: Impact of Historically Grounded Social Acceptability on Ergonomics in Shaping Urban Space and Structures in European Cultural Circle; Chapter 13: Facades and Multimedia Screens in Contemporary Architecture – Ergonomics of Use; Section II: Ergonomics in Industrial Quality; Chapter 14: Improvement of Lighting Quality in Advanced Main Control Rooms; Chapter 15: Development of Virtual Instructors for Enhancing Nuclear Power Plant Personnel Training Quality; Chapter 16: Applications of Ecological Interface Design on an Advanced Main Control Room; Chapter 17: Safety Oriented Voice- based Interface for Vehicle's AV Systems: Talking Car System; Chapter 18: Warning Message Design of LDWS; Chapter 19: Application of Taguchi Method on 3D Display Quality; Chapter 20: Subjective Perceived Depth Measurement and Visual Comfort Evaluation for Viewing Stereoscopic Films; Chapter 21: Application of Integrated Score of Ergonomic Work Conditions (ErgQS) in Management of Ergonomic Hazards in Enterprise; Chapter 22: Influence o...
