Community Ergonomics (CE) was developed from two parallel directions. One came from existing theories and principles in Human Factors/Ergonomics and Behavioral Cybernetics which have been applied to assess situations and find solutions at a macroergononic level (SMITH 1966, SMITH & KAO 1971, HENDRICK 1986, CARAYON & SMITH 2000, TAVEIRA & SMITH 2006). The second direction emerged from the careful and thorough documentation of specific case studies of communities, which in turn led to additional principles and theories with more contextual relevance (SMITH, CONWAY & SMITH 1966, SAINFORT & SMITH 1996).
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Smith, M.J., Derjani-Bayeh, A., Carayon, P. (2009). Community Ergonomics and Globalization: A Conceptual Model of Social Awareness. In: Schlick, C. (eds) Industrial Engineering and Ergonomics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01293-8_5
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