National and cultural variables in ergonomics / Alphonse Chapanis -- Human factors engineering (HFE) and cultural calibration for vessel and offshore installation design / Denise B. McCafferty, E. Johan Hendrikse, Gerry E. Miller -- Cross-cultural factors in aviation safety / Ashleigh Merritt, Daniel Maurino -- The role of national culture in enhancing training effectiveness : a framework / Shreya Sarkar-Barney -- Towards an anthropotechnology. X : a new activity for the United Nations in the service of economic development : specifying requirements for technology transfers in given geographical and anthropological locations / Alain Wisner -- Ergonomics in industrially developing countries (IDCs) : socio-cultural perspectives / P.A. Scott, J. Charteris -- Cognition in natural settings : the cultural lens model / Helen Altman Klein -- Designing the user experience for international web users / Monica Chong -- Culture, context and performance / Neville Moray -- A frenchman, a German, and an Englishman : the impact of cultural heterogeneity on teams / Florian Jentsch, Raegan M. Hoeft, Stephen M. Fiore, Clint A. Bowers -- Challenges and approaches to understanding leadership efficacy in multi-cultural teams / Eduardo Salas, C. Shawn Burke, Jennifer E. Fowlkes, Katherine A. Wilson -- The development of culture-oriented human machine systems : specification, analysis and integration of relevant intercultural variables / Kerstin Röse -- Acknowledgments / Michael Kaplan -- Introduction : adding a cultural dimension to human factors / Michael Kaplan.

In work environments world-wide, whether simple or complex, the ways in which people think, do their jobs, and interface with other human beings grow out of their experiences in the groups of which they are or have been a part. How these influences affect their performance and human interfacing in work environments throughout the world is the subject of cultural ergonomics. In this volume, distinguished scientists explore these cultural influences in relation to significant current concerns of ergonomics and human factors. These include scientific-philosophical considerations, aircraft safety, maritime safety, cross-national training, effective use of the world-wide web, multinational decision making, third-world industrial development, implementation of technology transfer, and the functioning of multicultural teams.

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