Cursos / 1º Ciclo / Faculty of Architecture and Arts :: Architecture ( Integrated Master)

ERGONOMIA - 2016/2017

2º curricular year
Semestralidade: 1st semester
ECTS: 2

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutor Alberto Estima
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutor Alberto Estima

Class type and School hours

Teórico-prática : 2 Horas

Teaching Language

Portuguese

Main Aims/Objectives

The course aims to create knowledge and understanding of the interactions between humans and their environment, equipment and space elements with which it maintains a constant "dialogue" generator of detectable or measurable effects.

It also aims to enhance the human in its spatial context, in their habitat, and hence the crucial importance of the conditioning of built space and equipment for physical and psychological characteristics of human beings.

Specific Aims/Objectives

- Questioning how can architects and designers influence the way we live and work in our cities, making them more inclusive and sustainable.

- Understand the importance of ergonomics and anthropometry in the adequacy of the spaces in which the daily activitiestake place to people of all ages and abilities, including how you can create a more engaging experience with the products, systems and services that surround us.

Skills to be acquired

Students should be able to perceive the relationship of man with the built environment, in particular regarding:
- Dimensional and anthropometric aspects;
- Functional, ergonomic aspects;
- Perceptual and psychological effects of human experience of built space;
- The acquisition of knowledge from research and analysis in the surrounding reality, the definition of strategies of interpretation, understanding and consequent action.

Teaching Procedures

Expository method: using various materials, enabling the transmission of knowledge in a structured and continuous manner. Interrogative method: systematically questioning the students.
Active method: the students must take the problem solving initiative in order to allow better consolidation of acquired knowledge.

Programme

1. ERGONOMICS - HISTORY OF A COURSE OF ACTION FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF WORKING CONDITIONS
  1.1 - Ergonomics:
       - Concept and scope,
  1.2 - History of ergonomics - the four major phases:
       - Anthropometric Ergonomics
     - Informational Ergonomics
       - Systems Ergonomics, and
       - Heuristic Ergonomics.
  1.3 - Ergonomics applied to the Architecture and Design.

2. DOMAINS OF INTERVENTION AND ERGONOMIC DESIGN METHODOLOGIES:
   2.1- American Ideology and European Ideology, task analysis and activity analysis, two inseparable sides of the job analysis,
   2.2 - multidisciplinary and participatory project.

3. HUMAN DIMENSION / ANTHROPOMETRY
   3.1-Morphological factors:
     - Structure of the human body,
     - Physical development,
     - Somatic constitution,
     - Individual differences,
     - Percentiles.
    3.2 - Human Dimension / Applied Anthropometry:
     - Concept, criteria for projects based on anthropometry,
     - Criteria for using anthropometric tables,
     - Volumes and body ranges,
     - The hidden dimensions,
     - Anthropometry applied to architecture and design.
     
4. Physiological factors
      4.1 - Occupational Biomechanics:
    - Static and dynamic work,
    - Postures and body movements,
    - Application of forces,
    - Body / mechanical system of levers,
    - Lifting and carrying loads,
    - Management and controls and
    - Design of management systems.

 5. Practical application of the concepts mentioned above:
- Discussion of the characteristics associated with the Fear / Insecurity in the use of artefacts and spaces. By contrast, the same will be done in relation to the characteristics that may be associated with SECURITY and CONFIDENCE;
- Related topics ERGONOMICS, EMOTION, TECHNICAL AID AND ARCHITECTURAL BARRIERS, performing an exercise that goes beyond the normal response to functional requirements and involving the consideration of EMOTIONAL REQUIREMENTS, to develop technical aids that do not conflict with the needs emotional users.

Evaluation Type

The evaluation is performed according to:
- General Regulations Assessment of Knowledge and Skills of Lusíada Universities;
- Specific Rules of the Faculty of Architecture and Art for their courses.

In this sense, the continuous evaluation of the course will be held through two written tests that reflect the learning of content, applied to the proposed exercises.

Teaching Resources

1. Presentation of theoretical research and projects related to the syllabus;

2. Exhibition of culturally important films for training and related to the course theme;

Sustainability Objectives

Keywords

Ergonomics,
Anthropometry,
Biomechanics,
Proxemics;
Enjoyment;
Emotion.

Main Bibliography

Complementary Bibliography