Synopses & Reviews
The latest edition of Fitting the Human provides quick access to the ergonomic information that professionals need when engineering workplaces, machinery, offices, computers, and lighting. Highly respected expert, Karl Kroemer organizes detailed knowledge regarding body size, strength, and mobility, as well as motivation, perceptions, and acquired skills. He also covers various work demands including shift work. Completely updated and revised, this seminal reference maintains the straightforward style of the preceding editions of this perennial bestseller as it describes mental and psychosocial ergonomics in detail. With new figures, graphs, and tables, this text continues to be the first choice for practitioners and students.
OTI#1
A Guide to Human Factors and Ergonomics, Second Edition
Martin Helander, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
This new edition gives a broad overview of cognitive as well as physical ergonomics and provides tools needed to solve systems problems and propose adequate design solutions. Written in an accessible style, it presents a systems approach to human factors and ergonomics that leads to complete understanding and helps to explain the myths and misconceptions in the field.
Catalog no. TF1485, 2006, 403 pp., ISBN: 978-0-415-28248-2, $83.95 / 46.99
OTI#2
Bodyspace: Anthropometry, Ergonomics and the Design of Work, Third Edition
Stephen Stephen, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
Christine M. Haslegrave, University of Nottingham, UK
This third edition of Bodyspace maintains the same content and structure as previous editions, but updates the material and references to account for recent developments in the fieldincluding new research findings and anthropometric surveys. Chapters on Health and Safety and Ergonomics in the Office are substantially revised to include new research, techniques, and changes in legislation that have taken place in recent years.
Catalog no. TF1531, 2006, 352 pp., ISBN: 978-0-415-28520-9, $69.95 / 31.99
OTI#3
Introduction to Ergonomics, Third Edition
R.S. Bridger, Hants, UK
A comprehensive introduction to the field, this book contains more than twenty worked examples and an Instructor's Manual with solutions to more than 200 problems. The book can be used in a variety of ways, depending on the goals of the reader. It provides a general introduction to the field and study sections that delve deeper into special topics.
Catalog no. 7306, January 2009, 808 pp, ISBN: 978-0-8493-7306-0, $69.95 / 38.99
Synopsis
New Edition of a Perennial Bestseller
Sets the standard for ergonomic references
The basic goal of ergonomic professionals is to fit tasks, tool, equipment, and working conditions to the human body. This six edition of Fitting the Human provides quick access to the ergonomic information that professionals need when engineering workplaces, machinery, offices, computers, and lighting. Highly respected expert, Karl Kroemer organizes detailed knowledge regarding body size, strength, and mobility, as well as motivation, perceptions, and acquired skills. He also covers various work demands including shift work. Completely updated and revised, this seminal reference maintains the straightforward style of preceding editions as it describes mental and psychosocial ergonomics in detail. With additional figures, graphs, and tables, this text continues to be the first choice for veteran practitioners and those just entering the field.
Synopsis
Using a direct, down-to-earth style to provide essential knowledge about ergonomic designs that fit the human body and mind, Fitting the Human: Introduction to Ergonomics, Sixth Edition follows the motto of the previous editions: coverage of sound science that is easy to read, easy to understand, and easy to apply. This sixth edition of a seminal textbook remains true to its original goal of providing quick access to the ergonomic information required to engineer workplaces, machinery, offices, computers, lighting, and more to fit the humans who use them.
New Organization Makes Teaching Complex Issues Easier
With new data and an updated layout that helps students grasp the concepts, this book delineates true human engineering, as opposed to trying to select or train people to do things with ill-designed equipment. Ergonomics guru Karl Kroemer organizes detailed knowledge regarding body size, strength, and mobility, as well as motivation, perceptions, acquired skills, and work demands including shift work. This sixth edition maintains the straightforward, lucid presentation of the previous editions, while updating the material to include coverage of work climate (both physical and psychosocial), material handling, electronic keyboards, and offices (at home and at the company) factors that continually change the demands on the human not only in equipment but in the physical and social environments. With additional figures, graphs, and tables, this text remains the first choice for teaching the fundamental and most successful ergonomics approach: make the details and overall work system fit the human.