Métodos da ergonomia

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Stanton, N. A., Hedge, A.,Brookhuis, K., Salas, E. & Hendrick, H. W. (2004). Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics Methods. CRC Press.
ISBN: 9780415287005; ISBN 10: 0415287006

Um excelente manual, com mais de 83 métodos da Ergonomia, suas vantagens, desvantagens e aplicações mais comuns.

Alguns dos métodos abordados são:

Physical Methods

>PLIBEL - The Method Assigned for Identification of Ergonomic Hazards
>Musculoskeletal Discomfort Surveys Used at NIOSH
>The Dutch Musculoskeletal Questionnaire (DMQ)
>Quick Exposure Checklist (QEC) for the Assessment of Workplace Risks for Work-Relate Musculoskeletal Disorders (WMSDs)
>Rapid Entire Body Assessment
>The Strain Index
>Posture Checklist Using Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) Technology
>Scaling Experiences during Work: Perceived Exertion and Difficulty
>Muscle Fatigue Assessment: Functional Job Analysis Technique
>Psychophysical Tables: Lifting, Lowering, Pushing, Pulling, and Carrying
>Lumbar Motion Monitor
>The Occupational Repetitive Action (OCRA) Methods: OCRA Index and
>OCRA Checklist
> Assessment Of Exposure to Manual Patient Handling in Hospital Wards: MAPO INDEX (Movement and Assistance of Hospital Patients)

Psycho-Physiological Methods

>Electrodermal Measurement
>Electromyography (EMG)
>Estimating Mental Effort Using Heart Rate and Heart Rate Variability
>Ambulatory EEG Methods and Sleepiness
>Assessing Brain Function and Mental Chronometry with Event-Related Potentials (ERP)
>MEG and fMRI
>Ambulatory Assessment of Blood Pressure to Evaluate Workload
>Monitoring Alertness by Eyelid Closure
>Measurement of Respiration in Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics Research

Behavioural and Cognitive Methods

>Observation
>Applying Interviews to Usability Assessment
>Verbal Protocol Analysis
>Repertory Grid for Product Evaluation
>Focus Groups
>Hierarchical Task Analysis (HTA)
>Allocation of Functions
>Critical Decision Method
>Applied Cognitive Work Analysis (ACWA)
>Systematic Human Error Reduction and Prediction Approach (SHERPA)
>Task Analysis for Error Identification
>Mental Workload
>Multiple Resource Time Sharing Mode
>Critical Path Analysis for Multimodal Activity
>Situation Awareness Measurement and the Situation Awareness
>Global Assessment Technique

Team Methods

>Team Training
>Distributed Simulation Training for Teams
>Synthetic Task Environments for Teams: CERTT's UAV-STE
>Event-Based Approach to Training (EBAT)
>Team Building
>Measuring Team Knowledge
>Team Communications Analysis
>Questionnaires for Distributed Assessment of Team Mutual Awareness
>Team Decision Requirement Exercise: Making Team Decision
>Requirements Explicit
>Targeted Acceptable Responses to Generated Events or Tasks (TARGETs)
>Behavioral Observation Scales (BOS)
>Team Situation Assessment Training for Adaptive Coordination
>Team Task Analysis
>Team Workload
>Social Network Analysis

Environmental Methods

>Thermal Conditions Measurement
>Cold Stress Indices
>Heat Stress Indices
>Thermal Comfort Indices
>Indoor Air Quality: Chemical Exposures
>Indoor Air Quality: Biological/Particulate-Phase Contaminant Exposure Assessment Methods
>Olfactometry: the Human Nose as Detection Instrument
>The Context and Foundation of Lighting Practice
>Photometric Characterization of the Luminous Environment
>Evaluating Office Lighting
>Rapid Sound-Quality Assessment of Background Noise
>Noise Reaction Indices and Assessment
Noise and Human Behavior
>Occupational Vibration: a Concise Perspective
>Habitability Measurement in Space Vehicles and Earth Analogs

Macroergonomic Methods

>Macroergonomic Organizational Questionnaire Survey (MOQS)
>Interview Method
>Focus Groups
>Laboratory Experiment
>Field Study and Field Experiment
>Participatory Ergonomics (PE)
>Cognitive Walk-Through Method (CWM)
>Kansei Engineering
>HITOP Analysis™
>TOP-Modeler© 2002
>The CIMOP System© 2002
>Anthropotechnology
>Systems Analysis Tool (SAT)
>Macroergonomic Analysis of Structure (MAS)
>MacroErgonomic Analysis and Design (MEAD)
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