Smart Design for Human Performance in the Office of the Future – Requirements towards Services and Technical Advises for Tomorrows Office Work

2009 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Johannes Kriegel ◽  
Franziska Jehle ◽  
Christos Efstratiou ◽  
Lambert Zaad ◽  
Janina Heppner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Performance ◽  
Office Work ◽  
The Future

Human Performance

2014 ◽  
pp. 267-273
Keyword(s):  
Assistive Technology ◽  
Human Performance ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Critical Factor ◽  
Assistive Technologies ◽  
Working Environments ◽  
The Future ◽  
Performance Issues ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact

This chapter looks into horizontal issues in ICT advances and discusses how the factor of human performance could help in increasing the impact of eAccessibility and assistive technologies in the future. More specifically, it revisits some of the ideas presented in earlier chapters looking at them from a different angle. The one of maximizing the audience and target group for assistive technologies through the increase in human performance, issues related with exoskeletons for working environments and dual use of assistive technology, sports as a motivator, aesthetics and fashion of prosthetics are discussed from this same perspective. Human performance could be a critical factor for the future of assistive technologies, and today's people with disabilities could become tomorrow's people with super-abilities and leaders in human performance issues.

Exoskeletons

2019 ◽  
pp. 234-259
Author(s):  
Priyanshu Agarwal ◽  
Ashish D. Deshpande
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Laboratory Testing ◽  
Human Performance ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Upper Body ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Human Use ◽  
Exoskeleton Design

The past few decades have witnessed a rapid explosion in research surrounding robotic exoskeletons due to their promising applications in medicine and human performance augmentation. Several advances in technology have led to the development of more energy efficient and viable prototypes of these devices. However, despite this rapid advancement in exoskeleton technology, most of the developed devices are limited to laboratory testing and a very few of them are commercially available for human use. This chapter discusses the advances in various constituting technologies including actuation, sensing, materials, and controls that made exoskeleton research feasible. Also presented are case studies on two state-of-the-art robotic exoskeletons, Harmony and Maestro, developed for rehabilitation of the upper body. The chapter concludes with a discussion on the ongoing challenges in exoskeleton design and ethical, social, and legal considerations related to the use of these devices and the future of exoskeletons.

scholarly journals Organization of university space and everyday life of its inhabitants: the activities of S. S. Uvarov regarding the St. Petersburg University and its predecessors in 1811-1821.

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1-2020) ◽  
pp. 109-126
Author(s):  
Ivan S. Pustovojt ◽  
◽  
Tatyana N. Zhukovskaya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Material Base ◽  
Office Work ◽  
Pedagogical Institute ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Creation

The article considers the activities of the Curator of the St. Petersburg educational district S.S. Uvarov in the reorganization of education at the Pedagogical Institute with a view to transforming it into a university. Based on archival materials of departmental and university office work, the stages of creating the intellectual and material base of the future university are presented: the acquisition and reconstruction of buildings, including the building of Twelve collegiums, the creation of new departments, the establishment of laboratories, the improvement of life, and the fight against diseases and mortality among students.

Some Ideas, Issues and Predictions about Performance Management

1988 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 387-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary B. Brumback
Keyword(s):  
Performance Management ◽  
Human Performance ◽  
The Future ◽  
Performance Success

This article begins with the author's ideas about the meanings of human performance, success and failure. The process of managing performance is then sketched. Fourteen significant issues associated with the different phases of the process are next discussed. The article concludes with some predictions and prescriptions for performance management in the future.

The Future of Office Work?

2019 ◽  
pp. 117-120
Author(s):  
Robert Bridger
Keyword(s):  
Office Work ◽  
The Future

Converging NBIC Technologies for Improving Human Performance: A Critical Assessment of the Novelty and the Prospects of the Project

2006 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 726-732 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bert Gordijn
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Human Performance ◽  
Physical Appearance ◽  
Critical Assessment ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
Converging Technologies ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Future

In recent times, optimistic views have been advanced about the convergence of nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive science and the way in which this so-called “NBIC convergence” could and should be used to enhance human performance, such as to improve our sensory, motorial and/or cognitive abilities, as well as our moods and physical appearance. These ideas have been elaborately developed and presented in several “NBIC workshops” in the US. This contribution focuses on two claims made by the proponents of the NBIC convergence. First, it is argued that the project of “Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance” represents something genuinely new and quite unique. Second, it is maintained that the future prospects of this project are extraordinarily positive. In order to critically assess these two claims I will first focus on the question of whether there is indeed anything genuinely new about the project of improving human performance by means of converging NBIC technologies. Next I will analyze whether the project warrants that we be optimistic about its future prospects.

Punched-card Equipment

1948 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 246-287
Author(s):  
N. E. Coe ◽  
K. J. Hedley ◽  
L. H. Longley-Cook
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Data ◽  
Office Work ◽  
Punch Card ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Subject

‘Punch-card equipment is becoming more and more a convenient and useful tool of the actuary. For this reason, the study of, this equipment and its flexibility should and will occupy a larger place in the training of actuarial students in the future.’R. J. WALKER, F.A.S.The actuary employed in life office work is very closely concerned with the methods by which the valuation and other records of a life office are built up. It is surprising, therefore, that there are very few references in the pages of the Journal of the Institute to the use of punched-card equipment for life office work. The use of the equipment for calculations of interest to the actuary, such as the construction of tables, has also been largely ignored. Actuaries employed in work outside life oflices so often rely on punched-card equipment for their statistical data that the authors feel that no apology is needed to either class of actuary for presenting a paper on the subject. Punchedcard equipment has received much more attention in the Transactions of the Actuarial Society of America, most recent volumes containing a paper or note on its application.

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