Visualisation of ergonomic guidelines

The study presented in this paper, attempts to discover how ergonomic guidelines should be visualised in order to support ergonomic aspects throughout the construction process. Field studies were carried out at a company that produce cars for the global market. A prototype of an enhanced visualisation of their ergonomic guidelines at the intranet has been developed and evaluated. It could be concluded that the visualisation of ergonomic guidelines should preferably be based on a set up of main headings and a picture of the physical car with hyperlinked segments easy to relate to a group of guidelines or a specific guideline. A group of ergonomic guidelines are favourably described by headings and a picture of segments related to the physical car. A specific ergonomic guideline should preferably have measurements related to pictures of car objects and human body parts. Using pictures in the navigation structure and the specific ergonomic guidelines will make it easier and more interesting to find and interpret the guidelines. A user-centralised approach of the ergonomic guidelines can contribute to a more successful integration of ergonomic aspects in the construction process