The overall theme of NES 2019 is ”Future Work: Digitalisation and Innovation”. Our keynote speakers will unfold this theme from different angels. In addition, more than 90 research-based and practice-based abstracts have been submitted, including 7 workshops and 3 special sessions.
Depending on your interest, it will be possible to follow one or more thematic tracks during the program. A track consists of 5-10 presentations, workshops or special sessions. There will be tracks on:
- Digitalisation and automation of work
- Occupational Health and Safety Management
- Organisational Design and Management
- Cognitive Ergonomics
- Risk Analysis and Management
The workshops in the conference will last 90-180 minutes. The workshops are about:
- Designing Work Systems Using the ACD (Activity-Centered Design) Framework
- Human Factors in Industry 4.0
- Improving Health and Safety by Automation
- Applying the concept Humans, Technology, Organization (HTO) in practice
- Systematic Multidimensionel Patient Handling pays off
- STUCK – Dealing with Organizational Trauma
- 50 years of NES - From the end of the 1960’s to the end of the 2010’s
- Dilemmas in introducing tele-medical and pervasive monitoring technologies in the private homes of citizens in need of care: balancing privacy against the duty of care
- Soter Spine: A wearable sensor to predict and prevent musculoskeletal injuries
- Professional certification of ergonomists and human factors experts
- Myontec Ergoanalysis with smartwear
The special sessions consist of three or more presentations on the same topic. The special sessions are about:
- Ergonomic evaluation with modern digitalisation technology
- Gender, work and health in ergonomics: the innovation of methods to analyse the activity
- The Nordic working environmental authorities
The research and practice-based presentations will last 15 minutes, including time for questions. They cover one of the five main tracks mentioned in the top of this page – or one of the following topics:
- Human-Machine Interaction
- Systems Ergonomics
- Participatory Ergonomics
- Ergonomics Intervention
- Prospective Ergonomics
- Ergonomic Work Analysis
- Visual Ergonomics
- Musculoskeletal Health
- Psychosocial Work Environment
- Occupational Health Services
- National Regulation & Occupational Health & Safety
- Occupational Health & Safety
The program is available for download. Minor changes may still occur.