ERGONOMICS AND WORK MEMORY – ANALYSIS IN THE LIGHT OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES
Ergonomics is the study of adapting work to man. Work has a very broad meaning, covering not only those machines and equipment used to transform materials, but also the whole situation in which the relationship between man and his work takes place. This involves, in addition to the physical environment, the organizational aspects of how that work is scheduled and controlled to produce the desired results. Ergonomics, based on the ergonomic analysis of work and mobilizing knowledge in different scientific domains, is therefore able to propose, in existing situations, ergonomic arrangements in socio-technical systems and, in future situations, ergonomic design recommendations. Thus, cognitive science increasingly recovers robotics, as the perception grows that the replication of embodied minds, that is, intelligences endowed with a body that acts in a real environment. Most researched working memory models emphasize a high level of control and regulation of cognitive and perceptual-motor processing. Such studies tend to take the view that attentional control functions are an essential part or a subset of a larger working memory system.
ERGONOMICS AND WORK MEMORY – ANALYSIS IN THE LIGHT OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES
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DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.15928022091210
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Palavras-chave: Ergonomics. Work Memory. Cognition Sciences.
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Keywords: Ergonomics. Work Memory. Cognition Sciences.
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Abstract:
Ergonomics is the study of adapting work to man. Work has a very broad meaning, covering not only those machines and equipment used to transform materials, but also the whole situation in which the relationship between man and his work takes place. This involves, in addition to the physical environment, the organizational aspects of how that work is scheduled and controlled to produce the desired results. Ergonomics, based on the ergonomic analysis of work and mobilizing knowledge in different scientific domains, is therefore able to propose, in existing situations, ergonomic arrangements in socio-technical systems and, in future situations, ergonomic design recommendations. Thus, cognitive science increasingly recovers robotics, as the perception grows that the replication of embodied minds, that is, intelligences endowed with a body that acts in a real environment. Most researched working memory models emphasize a high level of control and regulation of cognitive and perceptual-motor processing. Such studies tend to take the view that attentional control functions are an essential part or a subset of a larger working memory system.
- Adelcio Machado dos Santos
