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Belbin on inspection: A 50-year retrospective

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Abstract

The Applied Ergonomics Handbook (1970) contained an important reprint of Meredith Belbin’s DSIR paper Inspection and Human Efficiency (1963). Since those years there have been literally hundreds of papers on the role and effectiveness of humans as inspectors, all the way to See et al. (2017) who surveys where human inspection might go in the 21st Century. The current paper examines the prescience of Belbin’s original contribution in the light of significant work before Belbin, his own contribution to the theory and practice of the art, and subsequent developments. The major integrative summaries of inspection are reviewed to demonstrate the ways in which the study of human factors in inspection has changed over this half-century.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2018) - Volume VII
Subtitle of host publicationErgonomics in Design, Design for All, Activity Theories for Work Analysis and Design, Affective Design
EditorsSebastiano Bagnara, Riccardo Tartaglia, Sara Albolino, Thomas Alexander, Yushi Fujita
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages879-887
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9783319960708
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019
Event20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association, IEA 2018 - Florence, Italy
Duration: Aug 26 2018Aug 30 2018

Publication series

NameAdvances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
Volume824

Conference

Conference20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association, IEA 2018
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityFlorence
Period08/26/1808/30/18

Keywords

  • History
  • Inspection
  • Modeling

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