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A brief essay on ergonomics in graphic design

Issue title: IEA 2012: 18th World congress on Ergonomics - Designing a sustainable future

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Mendonça, André N. F. | van der Linden, Júlio C. S. | Fonseca, Tania M. G.

Affiliations: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, UFRGS, Av. Paulo Gama, 110 - prédio 12105 - 3° andar, sala 332,Centro, 90040-060, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil | DEG, Departamento de Design e Expressão Gráfica, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, UFRGS, Rua Sarmento Leite, 320 / 504, Centro, 90050-170, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil | PGPSI, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia Social e Institucional, UFRGS, Rua Ramiro Barcelos, 2600 - Sala 309, Santana, 90035-003, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil

Note: [] Corresponding author. E-mail: andrefurtadodesigner@gmail.com

Keywords: editorial projects, warnings perception, corporate identity project, cognitive aspects

DOI: 10.3233/WOR-2012-0351-1547

Journal: Work, vol. 41, no. Supplement 1, pp. 1547-1552, 2012

Published: 2012
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Abstract

Through Brazilian publication revision on the relations amongst Ergonomics and Design, we observed the tendency towards an approach focusing on product design. However, it is our duty to question which would be the influences of ergonomics in the graphic design. As a methodology, we considered the identification that the practices derived from ergonomics as epistemic system found in the main bibliography related to graphic design.

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