Ergonomics

The word is taken from erg. Greek for "work&sbquo" and nommos&sbquo meaning "low." It originally made its appearance in the study of military tactics. Accordingly&sbquo the goal of ergonomics was "effectiveness" and "safety." It come on the scene as a military science to secure the physical safety and effectiveness of combatants in combat situations. Stemming from the fact students for the military serve as important foundations for science&sbquo ergonomics is changing into human subjectivism. Ergonomics today has become the science of labor efficiency. In the post-war United States its designation changed to Human Factor Engineering in order to transform it into a kind of engineering that could incorporate "comfort&sbquo" "health&sbquo" and "safety' into labor. This had a great influence over the goal of ergonomics In Europe&sbquo where it became a type of engineering geared towards ease-of-use&sbquo comfort and health in the environment in which e tool was used Recently&sbquo Biomechanics was added to the picture and ergonomics has become an area of study that captures comprehensively everything from the device itself to the labor and social environment in which it is used. And of course&sbquo for design it has become an indispensable field in the construction of design studies. However&sbquo the call to treat the configuration of design form and the conditions under which it materializes "more ergonomically" is being turned into advertising copy&sbquo and it has become an extreme form of rhetoric to solicit agreement and recognition of a given design What we must do is precisely convey&sbquo in the terms of design ethics&sbquo exactly ergonomics what is being studied in ergonomics and hat form those results will take It is necessary to return Human Factor Engineering and Biomechanics to ergonomics and reintegrate them This is because ergonomics is a science d a technology&sbquo end together with the evolution of various instrument systems (such as a computer) we require the further evolution of ergonomics to cope with the receding relationship between human beings and technology&sbquo and when the global environment is the venue in which a tool is used.

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