Sustainable Development and Human Factors

Steimle, Ulrich; Zink, Klaus J.

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“…A number of efforts have been initiated in recent years to call for ergonomics to become more involved with sustainability. Steimle and Zink (2006) initially applied the term sustainable development to ergonomics (or human factors), and special IEA technical group on "Human Factors and Sustainable Development" (chaired by Professor Klaus J. Zink and Professor Colin G. Drury) has been established afterward in 2008. A special issue titled 'Ergonomics and Sustainability' was also recently published in Ergonomics in 2013.…”

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Ergonomics and sustainable development in the past two decades (1992–2011): Research trends and how ergonomics can contribute to sustainable development

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Ergonomics and sustainable development in the past two decades (1992–2011): Research trends and how ergonomics can contribute to sustainable development

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“…Workplace well-being is considered by the International Labor Organization [22] as what is related to the aspects of working life, including safety and quality of the physical environment, workers feeling about their work and workplace, and their satisfaction level of work organization. Human Factor/Ergonomics (HF/E) contributes to socially sustainable development and often also fosters productivity and effectiveness [43]. Potential solutions or options to promote well-being at work may rise from the learning of ergonomics [36].…”

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“…According to this definition, workplace well-being aims at ensuring the workers are safe, healthy, satisfied, and engaged at work. Steimle and Zink [43] encouraged ergonomists to make contributions through: understanding employment practices, complementing the design process of sustainability-oriented products, designing more efficient work systems, ensuring the safe operation of complex systems that may result in ecological and economic disasters, and through community ergonomics. Human Factor/Ergonomics (HF/E) contributes to socially sustainable development and often also fosters productivity and effectiveness [43].…”

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“…Stanton and Stammers [42] argue that there is a natural link between ergonomics and sustainable development. Steimle and Zink [43] drew specifically on the WCED definition and the 'triple bottom line' approach. Steimle and Zink [43] encouraged ergonomists to make contributions through: understanding employment practices, complementing the design process of sustainability-oriented products, designing more efficient work systems, ensuring the safe operation of complex systems that may result in ecological and economic disasters, and through community ergonomics.…”

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Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Access to the Human Environment and Culture

2015

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Abstract. Current secondary user authentication methods are imperfect. They either rely heavily on a user's ability to remember key preferences and phrases or they involve providing authentication on multiple devices. However, malicious attacks that compromise a user's device or discover personal information about the user are becoming more sophisticated and increasing in number. Users who rely on mouse-replacement interfaces face additional privacy concerns when monitored or assisted by caregivers. Our authentication method proposes a way of quantifying a user's personality traits by observing his selection of images. This method would not be as vulnerable to malicious attacks as current methods are because the method is based on psychological observations that can not be replicated by anyone other than the correct user. As a preliminary evaluation, we created a survey consisting of slides of images and asked participants to click through them. The results indicated our proposed authentication method has clear potential to address these issues.

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“…In the last few years, the concept of sustainability, traditionally focused on the natural environment, has been redefined including the sustainability of human resources [38]. The latter is based on long-term workability and employability, which represent key elements in ergonomics and human factors.…”

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Sustainability Enhancement of a Turbine Vane Manufacturing Cell through Digital Simulation-Based Design

2016

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Modern manufacturing systems should satisfy emerging needs related to sustainable development. The design of sustainable manufacturing systems can be valuably supported by simulation, traditionally employed mainly for time and cost reduction. In this paper, a multi-purpose digital simulation approach is proposed to deal with sustainable manufacturing systems design through Discrete Event Simulation (DES) and 3D digital human modelling. DES models integrated with data on power consumption of the manufacturing equipment are utilized to simulate different scenarios with the aim to improve productivity as well as energy efficiency, avoiding resource and energy waste. 3D simulation based on digital human modelling is employed to assess human factors issues related to ergonomics and safety of manufacturing systems. The approach is implemented for the sustainability enhancement of a real manufacturing cell of the aerospace industry, automated by robotic deburring. Alternative scenarios are proposed and simulated, obtaining a significant improvement in terms of energy efficiency (−87%) for the new deburring cell, and a reduction of energy consumption around −69% for the coordinate measuring machine, with high potential annual energy cost savings and increased energy efficiency. Moreover, the simulation-based ergonomic assessment of human operator postures allows 25% improvement of the workcell ergonomic index.

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Sustainable Development and Human Factors

Cited by 15 publications

References 4 publications

Ergonomics and sustainable development in the past two decades (1992–2011): Research trends and how ergonomics can contribute to sustainable development

Ergonomics and sustainable development in the past two decades (1992–2011): Research trends and how ergonomics can contribute to sustainable development

Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Access to the Human Environment and Culture

Sustainability Enhancement of a Turbine Vane Manufacturing Cell through Digital Simulation-Based Design

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