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Publisher Summary This chapter discusses that the human factors, as a scientific/technical discipline, has important contributions to make in securing effective working environments using technologically advanced equipment. The chapter describes that the nature of the contributions need to be explored and applied carefully—especially in the context of international standards with the goal of convergence on a basic set of ergonomic requirements. The potential impacts on emerging technologies as well as on the future of human factors as an identifiable scientific/technical discipline cannot be over-emphasized. The success of ergonomic standards such as ISO 9241 and ISO 13 406 is based on the ability to identify the best scientific data, incorporate it in an intelligent, reasonable manner and integrate it with other pertinent requirements. A major challenge lies in distinguishing between solid engineering and scientific data and preliminary observations, principles and theories. It is important to recognize that statistical significance is necessary, but not sufficient to move theoretical principles/constructs from the research literature to the requirement clauses of a standard. |
