anosta E-SPEAIT 2022 Blog

 When talking about ergonomics, the mind often conjures images of those old ugly ball-point pens that gave you CTS or chairs that gave you scoliosis. But really it's just a science of how humans interact with their tools and how to make it less painful. The difficulty of speaking about ergonomics stems from the fact that one only thinks about ergonomics when something has gone terribly wrong. But in all seriousness, if we are to speak of an example of good ergonomics that prevented a disaster, then the first place has to go to emergency numbers . Short, easy to remember, easy to dial, saving lives. Also, as far as I can remember, every cell phone has had the ability to dial an emergency number even while locked. Even those old brick phones. As for bad examples, there are possibly too many to count (including the pictures above). But I would like to leave the reader with this video by the satirical news network The Onion:

 Out of the ten commandments of netiquette by Virginia Shea, this one has the most "biblical" vibe. Mistakes are inevitable. Even I make them. Choosing to sound arrogant just now was probably one of them. Trying to break the fourth wall to sound funny was another. The point is, everyone makes them, and there is nothing easier than exploiting the mistakes of other people to make yourself feel intellectually or morally superior. Sadly, it has been in human nature even before the advent of cyberspace for people who are about to lose an argument to latch on to inconsequential mistakes of their opponents to divert the topic of conversation to come out on top. Online this behavior often presents itself in the form of "grammar nazis", when people sometimes literally point out a missing comma to suggest that their opponent is mentally inferior to them. There is more than one reason to avoid doing that. For example, it is you who could be wrong. It is always useful to posses