Alain Wisner
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Alain Wisner was a French
doctor
and a founder of the Activity-centered ergonomics
but also honorary director of the Ergonomics laboratory of the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers
(CNAM) and President the Ergonomics Society of French language from 1969 to 1971.
He has founded in 1955 the first ergonomics service of the French carmaker Renault, and became in 1962 teacher at the Physiology of Labor Laboratory of the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers in Paris, France.
He has Developing a particular approach to ergonomics with Antoine Laville which says the work and health at work can not be studied only in laboratory, they carry the research field in the companies. The work they perform on the mental activity of the chain workers in the late 1960s, upset look on the "manual labor".
When he became Director of the Physiology of Labor Laboratory of the CNAM in 1966, Alain Wisner evolves it into an Ergonomics Laboratory. There will develop training that will have an important role in disseminating Ergonomics focused on the activity. Thousands of ergonomists in Europe, North and South America, Africa and Asia are pupils or students of his students.
A.Wisner is the only person to have received three distinctions from the International Ergonomics Association
(IEA):
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
doctor
Physician
A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...
and a founder of the Activity-centered ergonomics
Activity-centered ergonomics
Following Maurice de Montmollin, the French distinguished generally two major trends in ergonomics:* Ergonomics focuses on the Activity, which emphasizes understanding the work situation as a whole, the demand analysis and framework intervention and the distinction between prescribed work and real...
but also honorary director of the Ergonomics laboratory of the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers
Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers
The Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers , or National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts, is a doctoral degree-granting higher education establishment operated by the French government, dedicated to providing education and conducting research for the promotion of science and industry...
(CNAM) and President the Ergonomics Society of French language from 1969 to 1971.
He has founded in 1955 the first ergonomics service of the French carmaker Renault, and became in 1962 teacher at the Physiology of Labor Laboratory of the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers in Paris, France.
He has Developing a particular approach to ergonomics with Antoine Laville which says the work and health at work can not be studied only in laboratory, they carry the research field in the companies. The work they perform on the mental activity of the chain workers in the late 1960s, upset look on the "manual labor".
When he became Director of the Physiology of Labor Laboratory of the CNAM in 1966, Alain Wisner evolves it into an Ergonomics Laboratory. There will develop training that will have an important role in disseminating Ergonomics focused on the activity. Thousands of ergonomists in Europe, North and South America, Africa and Asia are pupils or students of his students.
A.Wisner is the only person to have received three distinctions from the International Ergonomics Association
International Ergonomics Association
The International Ergonomics Association or IEA is a federation of forty-two individual ergonomics organizations from around the world.The mission of the IEA is to elaborate and advance ergonomics science and practice, and to improve the quality of life by expanding its scope of application and...
(IEA):
- IEA Distinguished Service Award, 1985
- IEA Ergonomics of Technology Transfer Award 1991
- IEA Fellow