Cursos / 1º Ciclo / Faculty of Architecture and Arts :: Design

ERGONOMIA - 2021/2022

1º 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

Teórica : 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 intends to value Man in its spatial context and in its habitat, privileging the physical and psychic characteristics of the Human Being.

Specific Aims/Objectives

Sensitize students to the importance of Ergonomics and Anthropometry in adapting products, equipment and spaces where the daily activities of people of different age groups and with different psycho-motor skills take place.
Lead future designers to actively participate in building a more sustainable and more inclusive society.

Skills to be acquired

Acquisition of knowledge, research techniques and intervention strategies that allow future designers to harmonize the ergonomic relationship that Man establishes with products, equipment and the environment that surrounds him, namely from the functional, anthropometric, perceptual and psychological aspects .

Teaching Procedures

Expository method: using various materials, enabling the transmission of knowledge in a structured and continuous manner.
Interrogative method: questioning, where appropriate, 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 LIFE/WORKING CONDITIONS
  1.1 - Ergonomics:
       - Concept and scope,
  1.2 - History of ergonomics - the Four Major Phases:
       - Physical ergonomics;
- the ergonomics of Physical Systems;
- Cognitive ergonomics;
- Organizational ergonomics or Macroergonomics.
  1.3 - Ergonomics applied to the Architecture.

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.
     
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. CONSTRUCTED SPACE
      - Lighting;
- Color;
      - Temperature;
      - Noise;
      - Vibrations.

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 assessment of the curricular unit will be carried out through two written tests plus the frequency at the end of the semester.

Teaching Resources

1. Presentation of theoretical research and projects on the respective programmatic content;

2. Display of documentaries related to current topics and considered relevant to the student´s academic background.

Sustainability Objectives

Keywords

Ergonomics,
Anthropometry,
Biomechanics,
Proxemics;
Inclusion;
Health and Wellness.

Main Bibliography

Complementary Bibliography