Contemporary Ergonomics 2009 Proceedings of the International Conference on Contemporary Ergonomics 2009

Preface

PLENARY SPEAKERS

Inspection: From goods through passengers to systems
C.G. Drury

Business ergonomics beyond health and safety: Work environments for employee productivity, creativity and innovation
J. Dul

Occupational safety: Charting the future
Y.I. Noy

Ergonomics and public health
P. Buckle

Human factors and development of next generation collaborative engineering
J.R. Wilson, H. Patel & M. Pettitt

ACCESSIBILITY

A design ergonomics approach to accessibility and user needs in transport
R. Marshall, D.E. Gyi, K. Case, J.M. Porter, R.E. Sims, S.J. Summerskill & P.M. Davis

Development of tools for reducing the stress of using public transport
P.M. Davis, R. Marshall, K. Case, J.M. Porter, D.E. Gyi, S.J. Summerskill & R.E. Sims

Validation of the HADRIAN system with a train station design case study
S.J. Summerskill, R. Marshall, D.E. Gyi, J.M. Porter, K. Case, R.E. Sims & P.M. Davis

COMPLEX SYSTEMS

A software tool for evaluating the effects of culture on military operations
A. Hodgson & C.E. Siemieniuch

Decision-making after the product-service shift and some implications for ergonomics
E.M. Molloy, M.A. Sinclair & C.E. Siemieniuch

Governance, agility and wisdom in the capability paradigm
M.A. Sinclair, M.J.D. Henshaw, R.A. Haslam, C.E. Siemieniuch, J.L. Evans & E.M. Molloy

DESIGN

The role of ergonomics in technology oriented projects; the intelligent zero emissions vehicle project
A. Woodcock & J. Taylor

Research and policy development into scooter access onto London buses
S. Thomas

HAZARDS

Study of verbal communication between nuclear plant control room operators during abnormal situations
A.N. Anokhin & N.V. Pleshakova

…It’s the way that you do it: Ensuring rule compliance
J. Berman, P. Ackroyd & P. Leach

HEALTH ERGONOMICS AND PATIENT SAFETY

Public requirements for patient-held records
J. Binnersley, A. Woodcock, P. Kyriacou & L.M. Wallace

Systems analysis for infection control in acute hospitals
P.E. Waterson

Portable pods: Design for unscheduled (urgent) care in the community
S. Hignett, A. Jones & J. Benger

Using usability testing as a benchmarking tool – A case study on medical ventilators
Y. Liu & A. OsvalderContents VII

Does the older workforce with high work demands need more recovery from work
J.J. Devereux & L.W. Rydstedt

HUMAN ADVISORY

The role of the human in future systems – Considerations and concerns
M.S.Young

Automation and technology in 21st century work and life
S. Sharples

Vigilance and human supervisory control – A potted history
J.M. Noyes

HUMAN ERROR/ACCIDENTS

Unpacking the blunt end – Changing our view of organizational accidents
B.M. Sherwood Jones

Lessons from the past to give to the future: Learning from incidents
S. Evans

The development of HSL’s safety climate tool – A revision of the health and safety climate survey tool
C. Sugden, M. Marshall, S. Binch & D. Bottomley

HUMAN FACTORS INTEGRATION

Reporting location and environmental features when using metal detector or probe in a simplified mine detection task
R.J. Houghton, C. Baber & J.F. Knight

Predictive Operational Performance (PrOPer) model
K.T. Smith

Distributed situation awareness: Applications and implications in defence
P.M. Salmon, N.A. Stanton, G.H. Walker & D.P. Jenkins

Human factors models of mini unmanned aerial systems in network-enabled capability
C. Baber, M. Grandt & R.J. Houghton

Human factors past and present
W.I. Hamilton

Ergonomics challenges for digitisation of mission planning systems
N.A. Stanton, G.H. Walker, D.P. Jenkins & P.M. Salmon

Human-centered design focus in systems engineering analysis: Human view methodology
R.J. Smillie & H.A.H. Handley

Submarine safety and spatial awareness: The subsafe games-based training system
R.J. Stone & A. Caird-Daley

Criteria for assessing social and organisational impacts of emerging technologies
P. Sirett, R. Braithwaite, R. Cousens, J. Marsh & M. Mason

INSPECTION

Animating the inanimate: Visual inspection from the medical to the security domains
A. Gale

Inspecting for safety hazards
K. Woodcock

Recent advances in technology to improve inspection training
A. Gramopadhye, P. Stringfellow & S. Sadasivan

Using body discomfort correlations to assist in ergonomic inspections of computer users
P. Stringfellow & A. Gramopadhye

One year later: How screener performance improves in X-ray luggage search with computer-based training
A. Schwaninger & A.W.J. Wales

METHODS AND TOOLS

The hexagon-spindle model for ergonomics
R. Benedyk & A. Woodcock

PRIMARY INDUSTRIES

A biomechanics workload assessment of female milking parlour operatives
M. Jakob, F. Liebers & S. Behrendt

Swedish perspectives on ergonomics in the primary sector
P. Lundqvist

ROAD ERGONOMICS

A 50-driver naturalistic braking study: Overview and first results
N. Gkikas, J.H. Richardson & J.R. Hill

Motorcycle ergonomics: Some key themes in research
S. Robertson, A.W. Stedmon, P.D. Bust & D.M. Stedmon

Keeping it real or faking it: The trials and tribulations of real road studies and simulators in transport research
A.W. Stedmon, M.S.Young & B. Hasseldine

SCHOOLS

Pupil involvement in classroom (re)design: Participatory ergonomics in policy and practice
A. Woodcock, J. Horton, O. den Besten, P. Kraft, M. Newman, P. Adey & M. Kinross

Results from a post-occupancy evaluation of five primary schools
M. Newman, A. Woodcock & P. Dunham

STRATEGIC ERGONOMICS

Repositioning human factors/ergonomics (HF/E) – Raising high hazard industry understanding and commitment to HF/E
D. Pennie, M. Wright & P. Mullins

Ergonomics for engineers
P.J. Clarkson

The trials and tribulations of trying to apply ergonomics in the real world
M. Kenwright & D. Pennie

TRANSPORT

A preliminary investigation of a low-cost method for prediciting the disruption of glances towards in-vehicle information systems
A. Irune & G.E. Burnett

The effective management of user requirements and human factors issues
C. Munro & S.R. Layton

WORKING PEOPLE

Predicting the human response to an emergency
G. Lawson, S. Sharples, S. Cobb & D. Clarke

Human factors contributions to the design of a security promotion campaign: A case study
A.E. Peron, B.F. Davies & S.R. Layton

Author Index

Biography

Bust, Philip D.