Ergonomics

[squirmelia]

I'm currently studying ergonomics and on Wednesday I went to the University of Surrey to attend the Ergonomics Society Student Conference and found that possible careers in ergonomics can involve designing remote controls, various things to do with trains, ergo-gnome-ics, and oh, nuclear bombs.

I consulted Ergonomics, Work and Health by Pheasant and it mentioned that "Victorian public houses commonly had a brass rail around the bar about 6 inches (150mm) from the ground, allowing the drinker to rest each foot on it in turn", so I then went to a pub to test that out.

Ergonomics, Work and Health also has some fascinating information about RSI and writer's cramp:
"Willis (1986) described RSI as a "metaphor for alienation" ".
and
"Crisp and Moldofsky (1965) go so far as to regard writer's cramp as a psychosomatic manifestation of repressed anger."

Comments

[solitarywalker.livejournal.com]

Mold of sky: if a damp wooden biplane stays in the sky too long...? *shrug* i'm sure a poet could do better.

Ergonomics can definitely involve designing remote controls. Most remote controls are horribly designed, a collection of buttons placed in such a way as to make the user wonder whether the designer had ever even seen a human hand.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

POET = Psychology Of Everyday Things?

I used to have a drawer full of remote controls when I worked for a digital TV company. I liked the ones with squishy buttons best.