Work provides us with a purpose, challenges that we have to overcome using our knowledge and experience. This session will enable you to recognise stress factors and design a framework for managing the levels of workload across your organisation.
Whether we are in an office or working out on a factory floor, your everyday tasks require some amount of physical effort. This session will demonstrate how energy expenditure is affected by environment, clothing and anthromechanics.
Imagine if you could evaluate a digital design from a human perspective before any money has been spent on prototypes and mock-ups. Well you can, come along and join us to find out how work avatars are used to design products, work systems and physical spaces.
The newspapers have warned us, our jobs are under threat from artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robots. What does this actually mean, and how can future designers help to provide augmented design solutions that support us at work and at home. We still need to feel valued and part of society.