Advances in social and organizational factors / / edited by Peter Vink

• Pubblicazione: Boca Raton, Fla. : , : CRC Press, , 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (841 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.48/3
• Soggetto topico: Technology - Social aspects; Technological innovations
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: VinkP
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: section 1. Perception and design of spaces -- section 2. Ergonomics in industrial quality -- section 3. Human factotrs [sic] in terrorism -- section 4. Enterprise ICT and work -- section 5. Learning and training -- section 6. Flexible work force and work schedule -- section 7. Adapting for special groups -- section 8. Ship design -- section 9. Changes at the organizational level -- section 10. New ways of work -- section 11. User experience, comfort and emotion.
• Sommario/riassunto: Preface The National Academy of Engineering Committee on Engineering's Grand Challenges has identified in 2008 14 areas awaiting engineering solutions in the 21st century (see http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/cms/8996.aspx). These 14 areas were defined by a panel of technology and engineering luminaries. The goal of the panel was to create a slate of Grand Challenges for scientists and engineers. Among these challenges five are directly related to the content of this book: 1. Restore and improve urban infrastructure 2. Advance health informatics 3. Prevent terror 4. Improve cyberspace 5. Advanced personalized learning This means that the contributions in this book are of a high value for the future of the world. These challenges have a more technological point of view as they are defined from an engineering perspective. The Lund Declaration prepared the future European Grand Societal Challenges (Chuberre & Lioli, 2010). So, these are more focused on societal issues. They identified six themes calling for solutions to tackle them. Two of these are closely related to the content of this book: 6. Ageing societies: As the life duration of people increases, this raises numerous issues among which economic, social inclusion and accessibility. 7. Security: How to improve the security of European citizens and their goods within but also outside Europe? --
• Titolo autorizzato: Advances in social and organizational factors
• ISBN: 0-429-06605-8; 1-4398-7020-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910452834903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Advances in human factors and ergonomics series.