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Introduction
Industrial designer, Ms. in Human Health and Development Promotion, PhD in Public Health. I am interested in inclusive design, sustainability, and macroergonomics.
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October 2006 - present
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- Researcher
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- Co-founder and active researcher in the fields of product design and development, process analysis and design, management and participative ergonomics.
July 2002 - May 2003
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Publications (36)
Ergonomics and Human Factors (E/HF) practitioners are increasingly engaged in projects meant to centre underserved communities and reduce inequities. The subdiscipline of E/HF that has emerged to explore the application of E/HF in this way is called community ergonomics. In this qualitative-descriptive study, we reflect on the progress made in the...
The commitment to a more sustainable world in social and environmental terms requires product design and development (PDD) models that will help achieve this goal. Based on a dialogue between theory and practice, this paper presents the reflections that led to such a sociotechnical model, including its main principles: Ergonomics Quality in Design...
Ergonomics and brand experience design (DEM for its acronym in Spanish “Diseño de Experiencia de Marca”) are two theoretical and practical approaches that share a central element: the human being. Under this statement, this article presents how it is possible to enhance the DEM service through the structured incorporation of ergonomics thanks to th...
Background:
Sustainability is a highly important theme worldwide and currently is being tackled by almost all disciplines. Indeed, the future of humanity is dependent on the actions taken now and in the immediate future. The Ergonomics and Human Factors (E/HF) community has not been indifferent to this issue, and one of the concrete actions adopte...
En este libro se entretejen la ergonomía con la etnografía, dando cuenta de la complejidad en el uso de dispositivos médicos en sala de operaciones. Es un relato sobre sistemas, prácticas, carpinteros en carne humana, ángeles de la guarda, partidos de fútbol, talleres de aprendizaje y mucho más, donde se potencian tanto la visión de la ergonomía co...
This work presents elements for an epistemological approach to the research lines of the proposed Doctorate in Ergonomics in Colombia and how they aim to respond to the context and needs of the region. Considering the characteristics of the context, the development of ergonomics in the region and the history and strengths of the research groups inv...
For ergonomics to create real change, it needs to address the immediate technical problem to be solved as well as the human, organizational, and societal context of the change. This contribution presents a qualitative-interpretative analysis that reflects on vignettes from real life experiences. These cases will create sketches that will be familia...
This qualitative-interpretive study reflects on the experience of two MSMEs that adapted rapidly to meet the need for protection products and maintain their production in the midst of confinement decreed by the city and country authorities, as a containment measure for the pandemic caused by the Covid-19, and where design was a key factor. The diff...
There is an increasing need and interest for Human Factors and Ergonomics (HFE) professionals to apply our discipline to a larger context. HFE researchers are starting to conduct research outside of traditional settings, focusing their efforts on complex societal challenges; however, this type of work is still in its infancy and there is a need to...
La seguridad del paciente, el uso de dispositivos médicos, procesos que se llevan a cabo en las instituciones de salud, así como los sistemas de salud en sí, son tópicos que han sido abordados en mayor o menor medida por la ergonomía, siendo en su gran mayoría estudios realizados por ergónomos en donde actúan como observadores de la condición, sin...
Este artículo introduce la línea de investigación “ergonomía, trabajo y salud” propuesta en el proyecto de creación del “doctorado en ergonomía” que adelantan la Universidad del Valle y la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, como parte de la construcción de conocimiento sobre el camino recorrido por la comunidad que ha trabajado la ergonomía en Colom...
Encounter on design, filmic arts and visual communication technologies for peace-building.
Conversatorio acerca del papel y el significado de las revistas indexadas.
http://www.iit.unal.edu.co/revista-actio/revistas/actio2-2018/actio2-2018_editorial.html
This is not an article, but an extended editorial of the first number of this journal. I hope to raise your interest and invite you to read the journal and submit your work.
Un dispositivo médico (DM) no es solo tecnología en sí mismo. Cuando un DM es usado, éste interactúa con otros DM, usuarios, espacios físicos, instituciones, entre otros, volviéndose parte de una tecnología más compleja que emerge de la ejecución de procedimientos médicos concretos o del desarrollo de actividades asociadas al equipo, tales como su...
Herramienta ortodóntica para ubicar, posicionar y adosar brackets por método directo o indirecto que consta de dos partes: un cuerpo para manipulación del dispositivo (1) y una punta (2). La morfología del cuerpo (1) permite que el usuario tenga control, confort y compatibilidad con la mano, en el momento de colocar el bracket (100) en el objetivo,...
This paper analyses two proposals that seek to contribute to sustainability from an HFE perspective: ergoecology and green ergonomics. It presents both approaches, their principles, purposes, and fields of application, thereafter dealing with their context of emergence, and overlaps in purpose, principles, and shared values. The principles of ergoe...
In this paper, we analyse two approaches that attempt to address how a human factors and ergonomics (HFE) perspective can contribute to the sustainability of the human race. We outline the principles, purposes and fields of application of ergoecology and green ergonomics, and thereafter deal with their context of emergence, and the overlaps in purp...
Este artículo presenta una reflexión sobre la responsabilidad social (RS) asociada a las tendencias que han surgido desde la ergonomía y los factores humanos en el proceso de diseño y desarrollo de productos. Inicia con la introducción del concepto de responsabilidad social y su relación con el proceso de diseño y desarrollo de productos desde la p...
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 ergoecology, the broader multidisciplinary field. Four design principles for green ergonomics based on ecological and ergonomics science are proposed and introduced...
Zusammenfassung
Dieser Artikel befasst sich mit den Grenzen und Chancen von Usability-Methoden, welche als Ergebnis quantitative Daten liefern. Dies wird beispielhaft anhand der Feldstudie eines Anästhesiegerätes erläutert, welches im laufenden Betrieb in einer Kinder-Tagesklinik untersucht wurde. Im Fokus dieser Untersuchung lag es die Vorteile un...
This paper conceptualises a new multi-disciplinary field by establishing the elements of an ‘ergonomic system’ (human beings, physical space, and object/machine) and defining the term ‘surroundings’ (PESTE factors) while emphasising the ecological aspects of human activities. The definition of ergoecology is explained by an etymological analysis of...
Ergonomics has been successful in increasing productivity and comfort in the work arena. It has also contributed to reducing occupational accidents. Despite this, ergonomics is frequently limited to understanding the health-disease process related to human-technology interactions, as this process is more complex than what can be understood from an...
This paper presents the model “Work Situation Operative Model” - MOST (after its Spanish acronym). It offers a comprehensive, systemic approach to analysing work stations and/or work processes, serving also as a framework for pursuing various ergonomic and occupational health and safety goals. Originally produced for a food sector company, the mode...
Globalization, technological complexity, the growth of more mature markets demanding differentiated or high-quality products, and the pressure of competition to reduce time and cut development costs have been leading to a broader application of methods and techniques that address human factors in different ways. As a result, a large number of metho...
This paper analyses the purchasing procedure for the procurement of medical devices, personal protection devices and work clothing. The construction of the purchasing procedure included the following steps: processes mapping, construction of a processes matrix, basic procedure definition, processes clustering, flow diagram construction and instrume...
This paper introduces the concept of compatibility in multiplicity as a leading thread for tackling the use of multiple medical devices in concrete settings. It is part of a broader research project aiming at recognizing the use of medical devices from a complex perspective. The concept is tackled from usability/ergonomics and Actor Network Theory...
This paper presents three ergonomic approaches and how they promote innovation in
productive organisations’ project engineering. Ergonomics integrates design variables and offers methodological approaches that favour innovation processes, beginning on a
technological and organisational level and afterwards on a social and cultural level. In line...
This study focussed on the work system design to be used by a Colombian food sector company for distributing products. It considered the concept of participative ergonomics, where people from the commercial, logistics, operation, occupational health areas worked in conjunction with the industrial designers, ergonomists who methodologically led the...
Este documento presenta la metodología, estrategias y resultados generales después de diez años de intervenciones ergonómicas en el Banco de la República de Colombia. Tiene un enfoque sistémico y diferentes herramientas de la micro y macroergonomía fueron utilizadas, abarcando desde la evaluación de condiciones iniciales hasta la medición de impact...
The current paper deals with the definition of sizes for the design of school furniture for schools in Bogotá, Colombia, based on an analysis of available anthropometric data on Latin American children. State-of-the-art anthropometric, national and international standards were considered, in order to define the anthropometric variables that were to...
This paper presents the academic experience in the application of the fundamentals of universal design in the Industrial Design Program at the National University of Colombia and the Architecture and Industrial Design Programs at the Javeriana University. On the one hand, it introduces the strategies applied during the semester workshops. On the ot...
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Question (1)
Narrative is an important subject for the contemporary investigative, educational and creative processes. Its significance derives from the fact that discourse tends to codification, specialization and institutionalization, whereas narrative operates at the margins of discourse, benefiting from diverse, flexible, interdisciplinary knowledge spaces, making discourse problematic and opening it up to the dialogic.
Narrative is a way of thinking and a reading-writing research procedure that reinforces memorization of the past and articulates the present; that addresses itself to a diverse
culture, its know-how, practices and territories; that reconfigures the communicative ecosystem. Narratives are tales that may be written, visual, audiovisual, sounding, performative, and are approached in a panoramic, expanded, hybrid or interactive way, displaying their content through multiple writings and communication platforms where the narrated actors and the spectators taken on participative roles.
As Editor-in-Chief of ACTIO Journal of Technology in Design, Film Arts and Visual Communication, we invite you to submit an article related to narratives. For more information, see the attached document. Thanks for sharing!
