Ergonomics and aviation

Ergonomics and aviation

Part 1

Ergonomics is closely related to aviation because the latter is very important to the design. Aviation is a socio-technical system to be safe and efficient at once. In fact, it was historically a thriving sector in the field of ergonomics, especially military aviation soon realized that their accidents were related to problems in interface design of cockpits or fatigue of its staff (Mense et al., 2001). As examples, it is worth remembering where aircraft controls some systems (switch) were not all in the same direction to be on or off, or the first aircraft where the ...