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Enabling environments, enabling organizations, enabling interventions: a constructive ergonomics viewpoint

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ECCE '15: Proceedings of the European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics 2015

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This text advocates a view of ergonomics and of its goal that sets development as the target of ergonomics actions. Enabling environments are defined as environments that do not have detrimental effects on individuals, that take into account differences between them, and that allow individuals and collectives to succeed and learn. Enabling organizations are defined as organizations that facilitate "design-in-use" processes. An enabling organization must not only tolerate, but also encourage such processes. The objective of ergonomic actions is both to foster processes of development throughout the ergonomic intervention, and to design work systems that promote development. Enabling interventions integrate development as a means and as a purpose.

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Enabling environments, enabling organizations, enabling interventions: a constructive ergonomics viewpoint
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2. Human-centered computing
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ECCE '15: Proceedings of the European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics 2015

July 2015

185 pages

ISBN:9781450336123

DOI:10.1145/2788412

General Chairs:
Anke Dittmar
University of Rostock, Germany
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Marcin Sikorski
PJAIT, Warsaw and Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland
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Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
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Krzysztof Marasek
PJAIT, Warsaw, Poland

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EACE: European Association for Cognitive Ergonomics
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