
DESIGN PRINCIPLES FOR
GREEN ERGONOMICS
Andrew Thatcher
1
, Gabriel Garcia-Acosta
2,3
&
Karen Lange Morales
2,4
1
Psychology Department, University of the Witwatersrand,
South Africa
2
School of Industrial Design,
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia
3
Centre de Disseny d’Equips Industrials,
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
4
Institute of Ergonomics, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
This paper provides an outline of the green ergonomics approach
and the relationship between green ergonomics and human factors
for sustainable development. Green ergonomics is based on ergo-
ecology, the broader multidisciplinary field. Four design principles ...