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Cultural Ergonomics - Theory, Methods, and Applications (Paperback)
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Cultural Ergonomics - Theory, Methods, and Applications (Paperback)
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Even when products and systems are highly localized, rarely is
there one design suitable for a single, mono-cultural population of
users. The products and systems created and used are cultural
artifacts representing shared cognitions that characterize mental
models that result from interactions with physical environments.
Thus, culture is embedded and impacts the extent to which products
are usable, accessible, useful, and safe. Products and systems that
deviate from users' mental models may have negative consequences
for users, ranging from minor annoyance to more serious
consequences such as severe injury or death. Both an introduction
and a primer, Cultural Ergonomics: Theory, Methods, and
Applications demonstrates how cultural ergonomics can be applied in
research and practitioner contexts. It covers selection of
theories, descriptions of research designs, methods to analyze the
results, case studies, and strategies used to draw inferences and
conclusions in a vast array of areas including occupational safety,
global issues, emergency management, human-computer interaction,
warnings and risk communications, and product design. Human
factors/ergonomics, as a discipline, is slowly integrating cultural
ergonomics into efforts to explore human capabilities and
limitations in the context of design and evaluation. Edited by
experts and containing contributions from pioneers in this area,
this book provides examples and methodologies within a human
factors framework. It provides systematic methods to apply what is
learned from analysis of culture to the design, development, and
evaluation of products and systems.
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