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| Foreword | |
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| Ergonomics applied to offices | |
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| Ergonomics defined | |
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| Humans run the office | |
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| Computers changed the office in the 1980s | |
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| The home office | |
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| One design does not fit everybody | |
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| Relations among people in the office | |
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| Overview | |
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| Organizational behavior | |
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| The elements of an organization | |
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| What, exactly, is the organization? | |
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| What, exactly, is behavior? | |
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| What, exactly, is motivation? | |
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| What, exactly, is job satisfaction? | |
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| What, exactly, is job design? | |
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| What, exactly, is power? | |
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| What, exactly, is stress? | |
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| What, exactly, is communication? | |
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| Balance in work and personal life | |
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| Ergonomic recommendations | |
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| Office design | |
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| Overview | |
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| A short history of the architecture of offices and office buildings | |
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| What, exactly, are the purpose and process of office space design? | |
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| The office environment | |
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| The process of office design | |
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| Ergonomic design recommendations | |
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| Chairs and other furniture | |
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| Overview | |
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| What, exactly, are "good" body movements and "healthy" postures? | |
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| Assessment of suitable postures | |
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| Design of the office workstation | |
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| Designing the home office | |
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| Ergonomic design recommendations | |
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| Keyboarding and other manual tasks | |
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| Overview | |
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| What, exactly, are the manual tasks in the office? | |
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| Repetitive strain from keyboarding | |
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| Keyboard design | |
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| Ergonomics of data entry | |
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| Ergonomic recommendations | |
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| Feeling good at work | |
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| Overview | |
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| Fire safety | |
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| Security | |
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| Cabling and wiring | |
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| Filing and keeping paper records | |
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| Communicating | |
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| Looks and appearances | |
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| Avoid musculoskeletal diseases related to keyboarding | |
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| Ergonomic recommendations | |
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| Seeing and lighting | |
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| Overview | |
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| How, exactly, do we see? | |
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| How does lighting help our vision? | |
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| Vision myths and truths | |
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| Color perception | |
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| The computer display | |
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| Avoiding indirect glare | |
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| Ergonomic design recommendations | |
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| Hearing and sound | |
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| Overview | |
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| How, exactly, do we hear? | |
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| Noise and hearing impairments | |
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| Noise in the office | |
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| Audiometry | |
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| Voice communications | |
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| Music while we work? | |
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| Ergonomic design recommendations | |
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| Office climate | |
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| Overview | |
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| What, exactly, is a climate? | |
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| Temperature regulation and sensation | |
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| Clothing, work, and thermal comfort | |
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| Assessing the thermal environment | |
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| Thermal comfort | |
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| Reactions to hot environments | |
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| Smells and odorants | |
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| Reactions to cold environments | |
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| Acclimatization | |
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| Effects of heat or cold on mental performance iin the office | |
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| Air-conditioning of offices | |
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| Ergonomic design recommendatiions | |
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| Index | |