Search results for "ergonomy"
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L'activité documentaire, une perspective ergologique
2008
As testify used vocabulary, contemporary training for a future librarian introduce progressively the question of the work by the way of corporate culture rather than the concrete work, the activity. I suggest to substitute this external approach, that meet necessary resistance in the job, for an intern approach by analyzing in first the notion of activity, then the one of documentary activity, concerning a public or a private service. Because of the originality of this approach, the analysis of the activity require first an inquiry on our cultural heritage, the history of ideas. It shows that the activity respond imperfectly at a logical or conceptual questioning, because the activity is an…
The accessibility of public urban spaces: walkability and ergonomic aspects
2013
Pedestrians can be ergonomically considered as workers into the socio-technical system of public urban space. Pedestrian targets can be defined as operations: the accessibility to a place characterized by services, commercial activities, enjoyment of leisure. Public space is a "universal" tool (differently from the ergonomic one), but it serves different user categories and enables different targets (movement, parking, social integration, etc..). The organization of public space should basically allow to perform users’ activities, but it has often been divided into a spatial and thematic compartments. From the twentieth century it was subservient to the dominion of the car, which strongly i…
Robust Ergonomic Virtual Design
2009
Since early development phases of a new industrial product, realistic simulations can be performed in virtual environment to study the human-machine interaction. In a virtual lab it is possible to make experiments to assess the ergonomics of the new product with manikins simulating the human body, and dealing with the problem of anthropometrical variation. Although such sophisticated tools are available, there is still need of a methodo-logical framework aimed at efficiently organizing the experiments in virtual lab. This paper provides an overview of the Robust Ergonomic Virtual Design (REVD), a methodology developed by the authors in the course of the last years. It allows obtaining produ…