The Future of Ergonomics in Education – Panel Session
The application of ergonomics/human factors (E/HF) principles and practices, and the implementation of ergonomics programs, have achieved proven success in improving performance, productivity, competitiveness, and safety and health in most occupational sectors. However, the benefits that the application of E/HF science might bring to promoting student learning have yet to be widely recognized. This session will address the degree to which ergonomic principles and practices currently are applied to benefit student learning and the performance of educational systems, as well as future prospects for educational ergonomics. The two basic questions underlying the session are how the ergonomic design of learning environments influences learning performance, and how the consequent benefits of ergonomic design for learning can achieve greater recognition on the part of the educational community. The future scientific challenge confronting learning ergonomics, as will be discussed in this session, is delineation of which design characteristics in the learning environment have the greatest influence on variability in learning performance. Practically, a key future challenge is to apply this scientific understanding to ergonomic interventions directed at design improvements of learning environments to benefit learning. In this regard, one particular focus of the session will be on the profound ergonomic design transformation of learning environments currently underway in the transition from a face-to-face to a web-based (e-learning) classroom design. In summary, this session will deal with these themes by addressing the origins and scope of learning ergonomics, scientific and practical implications regarding an ergonomics perspective on learning, and the future trajectory of educational ergonomics.
Thomas J. Smith Bob Bridger Knut Inge Fostervold Karen Jacobs Rani Lueder Leon Straker
School of KinesiologyUniversity of Minnesota (UM) Consultant Ergonomist, Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire, United Kingdom Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway Department of Occupational Therapy, Boston University, USA Humanics ErgoSystems, Inc. USA Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia
国际会议
17th World Congress on Ergonomics(第十七届国际人类工效学大会)
北京
英文
1-5
2009-08-09（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）