ABSTRACT
The reader who browses on the web through the sites of the IEA Federated Societies will find a number of alternative definitions either of ergonomics or of the aims of ergonomics and human factors. These definitions have in common:
– a reference to science – a reference to “knowledge about the characteris-
tics of human beings’’ – a reference to application of that knowledge to the
design of “systems and devices of all kinds.”
