Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Ergonomics standards -- the good, the bad and the ugly -- International standardisation of graphical symbols for consumer products -- The UK human factors defence standard: past, present and future -- The role of physical aspects -- The combined effects of physical and psychosocial work factors -- The role of psychosocial factors -- Interpreting the extent of musculoskeletal complaints -- People in pain -- Prevention of musculoskeletal disorders in the workplace -- a strategy for UK research -- A musculoskeletal risk screening tool for automotive line managers -- Risk assessment design for musculoskeletal disorders in healthcare professionals -- Ergonomic microscopes -- solutions for the cyto-screener? -- Musculoskeletal discomfort from dancing in nightclubs -- Is the ergonomic approach advocated in the Manual Handling Regulations being adopted? -- Control of manual handling risks within a soft drinks distribution centre -- Training and patient-handling: an investigation of transfer -- Risk management in manual handling for community nurses -- Children's natural lifting patterns: an observational study -- Manual handling and lifting during the later stages of pregnancy -- Posture analysis and manual handling in nursery professionals -- Can orthotics play a beneficial role during loaded and unloaded walking? -- Investigation of spinal curvature while changing one's posture during sitting -- The effect of load size and form on trunk asymmetry while lifting -- The effect of vertical visual target location on head and neck posture -- Is a prescription of physical changes sufficient to eliminate health and safety problems in computerised offices? -- An evaluation of a trackball as an ergonomic intervention -- Old methods, new chairs. Evaluating six of the latest ergonomic chairs for the modern office.

Development of a questionnaire to measure attitudes towards virtual reality -- Orientation of blind users on the World Wide Web -- ~Flash, splash and crash~: Human factors and the implementation of innovative Web technologies -- Determining ergonomic factors in stress from work demands of nurses -- A risk assessment and control cycle approach to managing workplace stress -- Teleworking: Assessing the risks -- Evaluating teleworking -- case study -- Team organisational mental models: an integrative framework for research -- The impact of ITT on virtual team working in the European automotive industry -- The effect of communication processes upon workers and job efficiency -- A case study of job design in a steel plant -- The effects of age and habitual physical activity on the adjustment to nocturnal shiftwork -- Job design for university technicians: work activity and allocation of function -- Allocation of functions and manufacturing job design based on knowledge requirements -- The need to specify cognition within system requirements -- Analysis of complex communication tasks -- Health and safety as the basis for specifying information systems design requirements -- Cognitive algorithms -- Rapid prototyping in foam of 3D anthropometric computer models in functional postures -- The use of high and low level prototyping methods for product user interfaces -- Creative collaboration in engineering design teams -- Pleasure and product semantics -- A survey of usability practice and needs in Europe -- Cultural influence in usability assessment -- Interface display designs based on operator knowledge requirements -- Understanding what makes icons effective: how subjective ratings can inform design -- Representing uncertainty in decision support systems: the state of the art.

Representing reliability of at-risk information in tactical displays for fighter pilots -- Semantic content analysis of task conformance -- Warnings: a task-oriented design approach -- Effects of auditorily-presented warning signal words on intended carefulness -- Listeners' understanding of warning signal words -- Perceived hazard and understandability of signal words and warning pictorials by Chinese community in Britain -- Thinking about thinking aloud -- Adjusting the cognitive walkthrough using the think-aloud method -- Verbal protocol data for heart and lung bypass scenario simulation ~scripts~ -- Use of verbal protocol analysis in the investigation of an order picking task -- Selecting areas for intervention -- Participatory ergonomics in the construction industry -- User trial of a manual handling problem and its ~solution~ -- Case study: a human factors safety assessment of a heavy lift operation -- The application of ergonomics to volume high quality sheet printing and finishing -- The application of human factors tools and techniques to the specification of an oil refinery process controller role -- Feasibility study of containerisation for Travelling Post Office operations -- The complexities of stress in the operational military environment -- The development of physical selection procedures. Phase 1: job analysis -- The human factor in applied warfare -- Getting the picture -- Investigating the mental picture of the air traffic controller -- Developing a predictive model of controller workload in air traffic management -- Assessing the capacity of Europe's airspace: The issues, experience and a method using a controller workload model -- Evaluation of virtual prototypes for air traffic control -- the MACAW technique -- Development of an integrated decision making model for avionics application.

Psychophysiological measures of fatigue and somnolence in simulated air traffic control -- What's skill got to do with it? Vehicle automation and driver mental workload -- The use of automatic speech recognition in cars: a human factors review -- Integration of the HMI for driver systems: classifying functionality and dialogue -- Subjective symptoms of fatigue among commercial drivers -- How did I get here? Driving without attention mode -- Seniors' driving style and overtaking: is there a ~comfortable traffic hole~? -- Speed limitation and driver behaviour -- The ergonomics implications of conventional saloon car cabins on police drivers -- The design of seat belts for tractors -- Auditory distraction in the workplace: a review of the implications from laboratory studies -- Transmission of shear vibration through gloves -- The effect of wrist posture on attenuation of vibration in the hand-arm system -- Criteria for selection of hand tools in the aircraft manufacturing industry: a review -- Exposure assessment of ice cream scooping tasks -- The effect of clothing fit on the clothing Ventilation Index -- A thermoregulatory model for predicting transient thermal sensation -- The user-oriented design, development and evaluation of the clothing envelope of thermal performance -- A comparison of the thermal comfort of different wheelchair seating materials and an office chair -- The effect of repeated exposure to extreme heat by fire training officers -- The effects of self-contained breathing apparatus on gas exchange and heart rate during fire-fighter simulations -- The effect of external air speed on the clothing ventilation index -- Commercial planning and ergonomics -- Human factors and design: Bridging the communication gap -- Guidelines for addressing ergonomics in development aid.

Determining and evaluating ergonomic training needs for design engineers -- Ergonomic ideals vs genuine constraints -- Another look at Hick-Hyman's reaction time law -- Design relevance of usage centred studies at odds with their scientific status? -- The integration of human factors considerations into safety and risk assessment systems -- The use of defibrillator devices by the lay public -- Occupational disorders in Ghanaian subsistence farmers -- AUTHOR INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX.