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We Keep Measuring Cognitive Load and Ignoring Emotional Load

Cognitive ergonomics has done impressive work over the past few decades quantifying mental workload how many items a working memory can hold under time pressure, how interfac…

We are Training Dentists to Hurt Themselves, and We Know It

Consider how dental education handles posture. Most curricula devote a lecture or two, early in training, to the “neutral position” the textbook illustration of a clinician sitti…

Letter to the Editor: Static Posture Guidelines Have Not Kept Pace with Sit-Stand Adoption

I write in response to the continued circulation, in workplace ergonomics guidance and continuing education materials, of static seated-posture diagrams that have changed lit…

A Note on Risk Communication Failures Between Safety Engineers and Non-Specialist Stakeholders

Risk and safety science for engineers has developed increasingly sophisticated quantitative methods for hazard analysis, including fault tree analysis, bow-tie modeling, and probab…

Dark Numbers and Herd Immunity of the First Covid-19 Wave and Future Social Interventions

he Gauss model for the time evolution of the first corona pandemic wave allows to draw conclusions on the amount of unreported cases per reported case, i.e., ”dark number” of infec…