This book delivers an authoritative and practical account of methods that incorporate human capabilities and limitations, environmental factors, human-machine interaction, and other factors into system design. It describes 83 methods in a standardized format, promoting the use of methods that may have formerly been unfamiliar to designers. Each of the six sections covers a specialized field of ergonomics with a representative selection of associated methods. The sections highlight facets of human factors and ergonomics in systems analysis, design, and evaluation. Standard descriptions of methods encourage browsing through several potential methods before tackling a problem.

PHYSICAL METHODSPhysical MethodsPLIBEL - The Method Assigned for Identification of Ergonomic HazardsMusculoskeletal Discomfort Surveys Used at NIOSHThe Dutch Musculoskeletal Questionnaire (DMQ)Quick Exposure Checklist (QEC) for the Assessment of WorkplaceRisks for Work-Relate Musculoskeletal Disorders (WMSDs)Rapid Upper Limb Assessment (RULA)Rapid Entire Body AssessmentThe Strain IndexPosture Checklist Using Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) TechnologyScaling Experiences during Work: Perceived Exertion and DifficultyMuscle Fatigue Assessment: Functional Job Analysis TechniquePsychophysical Tables: Lifting, Lowering, Pushing, Pulling, and CarryingLumbar Motion MonitorThe Occupational Repetitive Action (OCRA) Methods: OCRA Index and OCRA ChecklistAssessment Of Exposure to Manual Patient Handling in Hospital Wards: MAPO INDEX (Movement and Assistance of Hospital Patients)Psychophysiological MethodsPsycho-Physiological MethodsElectrodermal MeasurementElectromyography (EMG)Estimating Mental Effort Using Heart Rate and Heart Rate VariabilityAmbulatory EEG Methods and SleepinessAssessing Brain Function and Mental Chronometry with Event-RelatedPotentials (ERP)MEG and fMRIAmbulatory Assessment of Blood Pressure to Evaluate WorkloadMonitoring Alertness by Eyelid ClosureMeasurement of Respiration in Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics ResearchBehavioural and Cognitive MethodsApplying Interviews to Usability AssessmentVerbal Protocol AnalysisRepertory Grid for Product EvaluationFocus GroupsHierarchical Task Analysis (HTA)Allocation of FunctionsCritical Decision MethodApplied Cognitive Work Analysis (ACWA)Systematic Human Error Reduction and Prediction Approach (SHERPA)Task Analysis for Error IdentificationMental WorkloadMultiple Resource Time Sharing ModePath Analysis for Multimodal ActivitySituation Awareness Measurement and the Situation AwarenessGlobal Assessment TechniqueTeam MethodsTeam TrainingDistributed Simulation Training for TeamsSynthetic Task Environments for Teams: CERTT's UAV-STEEvent-Based Approach to Training (EBAT)Team BuildingMeasuring Team KnowledgeTeam Communications AnalysisQuestionnaires for Distributed Assessment of Team Mutual AwarenessTeam Decision Requirement Exercise: Making Team DecisionRequirements ExplicitDavid W. Klinger and Bianka B. HahnTargeted Acceptable Responses to Generated Events or Tasks (TARGETs)Behavioral Observation Scales (BOS)Team Situation Assessment Training for Adaptive CoordinationTeam Task AnalysisTeam WorkloadSocial Network AnalysisEnvironmental MethodsThermal Conditions MeasurementCold Stress IndicesHeat Stress IndicesThermal Comfort IndicesIndoor Air Quality: Chemical ExposuresIndoor Air Quality: Biological/Particulate-Phase ContaminantExposure Assessment MethodsOlfactometry: the Human Nose as Detection InstrumentThe Context and Foundation of Lighting PracticePhotometric Characterization of the Luminous EnvironmentEvaluating Office LightingRapid Sound-Quality Assessment of Background NoiseNoise Reaction Indices and AssessmentNoise and Human BehaviorOccupational Vibration: a Concise PerspectiveHabitability Measurement in Space Vehicles and Earth AnalogsMacroergonomic MethodsMacroergonomic Organizational Questionnaire Survey (MOQS)Interview MethodFocus GroupsLaboratory ExperimentField Study and Field Experiment, Participatory Ergonomics (PE)Cognitive Walk-Through Method (CWM)Kansei EngineeringHITOP Analysis (TM)TOP-Modeler (c) 2002The CIMOP System (c) 2002AnthropotechnologySystems Analysis Tool (SAT)Macroergonomic Analysis of Structure (MAS)MacroErgonomic Analysis and Design (MEAD)