Ergonomics and Health Aspects of Work with Computers

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Ergonomics and Health Aspects of Work with Computers, EHAWC 2007, held in Beijing, China in July 2007 in the framework of the 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2007 with 8 other thematically similar conferences. It covers health and well being in the working environment as well as ergonomics and design.

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I: Health and Well Being in the Working Environment.- Can Visual Discomfort Influence on Muscle Pain and Muscle Load for Visual Display Unit (VDU) Workers?.- Neuromuscular Principles in the Visual System and Their Potential Role in Visual Discomfort.- Forget About Aesthetics in Chair Design: Ergonomics Should Provide the Basis for Comfort.- Effects of the Office Environment on Health and Productivity 1: Auditory and Visual Distraction.- Effects of Using Dynamic Office Chairs on Posture and EMG in Standardized Office Tasks.- Video Display Terminals and Neck Pain: When Ophthalmology Explains the Failure of Biomechanical Intervention.- Performance Monitoring, Supervisory Support, and Job Characteristics and Their Impact on Employee Well-Being Amongst Four Samples of Call Centre Agents in South Africa.- Mechanisms for Work Related Disorders Among Computer Workers.- Do Background Luminance Levels or Character Size Effect the Eye Blink Rate During Visual Display Unit (VDU) Work - Comparing Young Adults with Presbyopes?.- Do the Luminance Levels of the Surroundings of Visual Display Units (VDU) and the Size of the Characters on the Screen Effect the Accommodation, the Muscle Load and Productivity During VDU Work?.- Complexity and Workload Factors in Virtual Work Environments of Mobile Work.- A Study of Personal Space in Communicating Information.- Musculoskeletal and Performance Effects of Monocular Display Augmented, Articulated Arm Based Laser Digitizing.- Work Environment and Health Effects of Operators at Light-on-Test Process in TFT-LCD Plants.- Techno Stress: A Study Among Academic and Non Academic Staff.- Call Centres in the Domain of Telecommunications: Ergonomic Issues for Well-Being Improvement.- Health and Performance Consequences of Office Ergonomic Interventions Among Computer Workers.- Splint Effect on the Range of Wrist Motion and Typing Performance.- The Impact of VDU Tasks and Continuous Feedback on Arousal and Well-Being: Preliminary Findings.- Effects of the Office Environment on Health and Productivity 1: Effects of Coffee Corner Position.- Guerilla Ergonomics: Perceiving the Affordances for Workplace Design.- II: Ergonomics and Design.- Constraints on Demarcating Left and Right Areas in Designing of a Performance-Based Workstation.- Design of an Adaptive Feedback Based Steering Wheel.- Virtual Reality in the Study of Warnings Effectiveness.- An Interactive System to Measure the Human Behaviour: An Analysis Model for the Human-Product-Environment Interaction.- Computer, Television and Playstation Use in Developmental Age: Friends or Enemies of Growth and Health? Study on a Northern Italy Sample 6-14 Year Old.- Ergonomic Requirements for Input Devices.- Factors Relating to Computer Use for People with Mental Illness.- A Biomechanical Analysis System to Evaluate Physical Usability of Kimchi Refrigerator.- An Experimental Study on Physiological Parameters Toward Driver Emotion Recognition.- A Kinematic Analysis of Directional Effects on Trackball Mouse Control in Novel Normal Users: An Alternating Treatments Single Subject Design.- An Evaluation Study for a 3D Input Device Based on Ergonomic Design Criteria.- Investigation and Implementation of the Advanced Wireless Medical Registration Solution in China.- Effectiveness of Multimedia Systems in Children's Education.- An Expert System to Support Clothing Design Process.- Interaction and Ergonomics Issues in the Development of a Mixed Reality Construction Machinery Simulator for Safety Training.- Performance Improvement of Pulse Oximetry-Based Respiration Detection by Selective Mode Bandpass Filtering.- Development of Electric Wheelchair with Operational Force Detecting Interface for Persons with Becker's Muscular Dystrophy.- How Users with RSI Review the Usability of Notebook Input Devices.- Dynamic Mouse Speed Scheme Design Based on Trajectory Analysis.- Problematic Internet Use in South African Information Technology Workers.- A Novel Design for an Ultra-Large Screen Display for Industrial Process Control.- Methodology to Apply a Usability Testing by Non Specialized People: Evaluation of the European Platform "e-Exhibitions".- Evaluation of Guiard's Theory of Bimanual Control for Navigation and Selection.- Evaluation Approach for Post-stroke Rehabilitation Via Virtual Reality Aided Motor Training.