Ergonomics and estrangement

Estrangement and Relationship

THE existentialist approach to psychiatric problems has gained considerable popularity amongst some groups of European psychiatrists, notably in Western Germany, France, Spain and Italy. In Britain and America the few papers that have appeared on this topic have not always been enthusiastic. The problems of psychiatry and psychology are slowly being formulated in ways that lend themselves to th...

Ergonomics and Design

Today, both workers and management are concerned about the quality of work lives, ergonomics and occupational safety and health. New development such as information and communication technologies and specialized work requiring repetitive tasks add up to a need for Ergonomics. By examining, designing, testing and evaluating the work piece and how people interact in it, ergonomics can create prod...

Information Processing and Ergonomics

This paper looks at the three main information processing models from the point of view of researchers in confidential human factors databases. It explores conceptual problems with two of these information processing models, and goes on to explore possible advantages of adopting a ‘connectionist’ paradigm. Links between connectionism and ‘situated cognition’ are demonstrated. Practical work car...

Human Factors and Ergonomics

Cultural estrangement: the role of personal and societal value discrepancies.

Study 1 examined whether cultural estrangement arises from discrepancies between personal and societal values (e.g., freedom) rather than from discrepancies in attitudes toward political (e.g., censorship) or mundane (e.g., pizza) objects. The relations between different types of value discrepancies, estrangement, subjective well-being, and need for uniqueness also were examined. Results indica...