Ergonomics for sustainable development and hedonomics:incompatible or mutually compatible?
Ergonomics for sustainable development is primarily concerned with the design of systems that look to ensure the social and economic upliftment of collective groups of people and in so doing ensure the sustainability of ecological systems. In contrast, hedonomics is concerned with the design of products and systems that are to be experienced as pleasurable by the individuals who interact with them. At a conceptual level, ergonomics for sustainable development and hedonomic design appear to be polar opposites. In this paper the definitions of these two ergonomic design philosophies are carefully unpacked in order to understand where there are differences and similarities. A three-tier framework of abstraction of ergonomics for sustainable development is presented that proposes a merger of the two approaches. The framework proposes that ergonomics for sustainable development should be viewed at the following three levels of design abstraction: ecological design, design for engagement, and design for ideology. The paper concludes with examples of ergonomics for sustainable development that involves some aspect of hedonomics at each level of abstraction.
Andrew Thatcher
Department of Psychology, School of Human & Community Development, University of the Witwatersrand, Wits, 2050, South Africa
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
1-9
2009-08-09（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）