Evaluating the ergonomics of a student learning environment

Rudolf, M.; Griffiths, Yolanda

doi:10.3233/wor-2009-0948

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“…Peng (2016) focuses on the opportunities and limitations students perceive in the EFL classroom environment. Rudolf and Griffiths (2009) point out that implementing ergonomics principles in the school learning environment addresses diverse issues (e.g. physical factors such as equipment and work area; teaching factors such as instructional material, technologies, and curriculum; environmental factors such as temperature and lighting; and temporal factors such as schedule and length of the school day and breaks).…”

Section: Ergonomics and Efl Teachingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As ergonomics is important for safety, health, productivity, and performance, educational institutions, as Rudolf and Griffiths (2009) recommend, need to make changes and create longterm plans to enhance their available resources and services which influence student comfort and productivity and can offset the cost of renovating school furniture.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Using Ergonomics Based Instruction in Teaching English Language Integrated Skills

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El-Bayaa

El-Henawy

et al. 2023

Port Said Journal of Educational Research

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Ergonomics is a multidisciplinary scientific discipline that studies man-artifact interaction. Ergonomics-tailored teaching and learning materials and activities require to consider jointly the needs of the users (i.e. teachers and students) and the resources within the learning environment. The fundamental question confronting educational ergonomics is how to incorporate ergonomics into interventions targeting designing features in the learning environment to improve the learning performance of EFL students, particularly English language integrated skills. This paper, therefore, sets out to show how ergonomics features that consider users' factors and reduce discomfort can be utilized in teaching the English language. It addresses the following points: the definition of ergonomics based-instruction, the importance of using ergonomics in EFL education, and how teachers can incorporate ergonomics in teaching the English language integrated skills. Finally, the researchers provide conclusions and pedagogical implications as well as suggestions for future research agenda regarding adopting an ergonomics perspective in EFL education and fostering ergonomics literacy.

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Section: Ergonomics and Efl Teachingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: For Administratorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Using Ergonomics Based Instruction in Teaching English Language Integrated Skills

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El-Bayaa

El-Henawy

et al. 2023

Port Said Journal of Educational Research

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“…Developing the perceived usability evaluation questionnaire. A 13-item online questionnaire was developed in the Qualtrics platform based on items obtained from healthcare seating design guidelines in the literature and the Evidence-Based Design Furniture Checklist for healthcare environments (Malone & Dellinger, 2011;Rudolf & Griffiths, 2009). The items were modified prior to implementation into the questionnaire to match the purpose of the study.…”

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Perceived Usability of Seating in an Outpatient Waiting Area: A Combined Approach Utilizing Virtual Reality and Actual Seating Prototypes

Jafarifiroozabadi

Joshi

Joseph

et al. 2021

HERD

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Objective: This study proposed a combined methodology to evaluate the perceived usability of healthcare seats that were first selected in a virtual waiting room which provided the context of use for the seats. Background: There has been an increased interest in using virtual reality (VR) for evaluation of seating in interior environments. Although VR offers a less expensive approach compared to evaluating seats in situ, using VR has limitations as users cannot experience the actual seat prototypes. Method: Participants ( N = 92) experienced a virtual waiting room with various seat groupings and were prompted with four task-based scenarios through which they selected a seat. After the VR phase, they experienced their selected seats in a lab and used an online questionnaire to evaluate the seating. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to garner similarities and differences in participants’ experience of virtual and real seats. Results: Three categories including comfort, support, and flexibility were extracted from the questionnaire. While support and comfort categories were highly ranked by participants, the category rankings varied depending on participants’ age, gender, tasks, and seat types. Interviews revealed that there were differences in experience of the seating materials in VR versus reality, and therefore experiencing the real seats was useful in seating evaluation. Conclusions: The findings suggest that the combined methodology using VR and real seating in a lab is a reliable tool for designers and furniture manufacturers to obtain users’ perceived usability evaluation of seating during the design process while the actual context is absent.

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Towards an Ergonomics of Knowledge Systems: Improving the Design of Technology Enhanced Learning

Millard

Howard

2010

Sustaining TEL: From Innovation to Learning and Practice

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Abstract. As Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) systems become more essential to education there is an increasing need for their creators to reduce risk and to design for success. We argue that by taking an ergonomic perspective it is possible to better understand why TEL systems succeed or fail, as it becomes possible to analyze how well they are aligned with their users and environment. We present three TEL case studies that demonstrate these ideas, and show how an ergonomic analysis can help frame the problems faced in a useful way. In particular we propose using a variant of ergonomics that emphasizes the expression, communication and use of knowledge within the system; we call this approach Knowledge System Ergonomics.

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Evaluating the ergonomics of a student learning environment

Cited by 10 publications

References 6 publications

Using Ergonomics Based Instruction in Teaching English Language Integrated Skills

Using Ergonomics Based Instruction in Teaching English Language Integrated Skills

Perceived Usability of Seating in an Outpatient Waiting Area: A Combined Approach Utilizing Virtual Reality and Actual Seating Prototypes

Towards an Ergonomics of Knowledge Systems: Improving the Design of Technology Enhanced Learning

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