Cornell University Ergonomics Web

The following handouts contain the course slides:

Downloadable Course Text Handouts

The following text handouts can be downloaded in .pdf format.  To read these notes you will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed (this is available free at http://www.adobe.com). The handouts are secure so you will need a password to open each of these:

• Origins of Ergonomics
• Systems Thinking
• Human Information Processing - Sensation and Perception
• Human Information Processing - Memory
• Human Information Processing - Pattern recognition
• Information Design - Graphics, Static Displays
• Information Design - YAH and Dynamic Displays
• Information Design - Auditory Displays
• Information Design - Cutaneous and Olfactory Displays
• Control design
• Compatibility
• Anthropometry
• Basic Biomechanics
• Basic Biomechanics II
• Work Capacity Evaluation
• Lifting and Back Injury
• Ergonomic Seating
• Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders
• Grasping
• Hand Tool Design
• Biological Rhythms
• Human Vibration