NES2010

Confirmed keynote speakers

Karen Jacobs

Karen is a clinical professor of occupational therapy and the program
director of the distance education post-professional occupational therapy
programs at Boston University. Karen’s research examines the interface between the environment and human capabilities. In particular, she examines the individual factors and environmental demands associated with increased risk of functional limitations among populations of university and middle school aged students
Karen will be talking about School Ergonomics

David Caple

David is the immediate former president of the IEA and works a professional ergonomist
Davids presentation is called “Ergonomics – a pro-active challenge” and he will be talking about the potential dilemma that comes with the increased number of research and application areas of ergonomics, in terms of demonstrating the diversity of the domain or potentially diluting the community understanding of exactly “what is ergonomics”? 

Gunnar Horgen

 Gunnar is a professor at Buskerud University College at Department of Optometry and Visual Sciences. He holds a MSc in clinical optometry and in his PhD work he investigated the impact of different optometric corrections on musculoskeletal load and pain among VDU workers. Present research interest is also in lighting and health among the elderly population. Gunnar will talk about different aspects of Visual Ergonomics and the expansion of the field including also private homes.

Jayantha Prasanna Liyanage

Prof. Jayantha P. Liyanage is the Chair of Centre Industrial Asset

Management (CIAM), of University of Stavanger, Norway. He has earned BSc

in Production engineering, MSc in Ergonomics, and PhD in Offshore

technology. He also serves in the Board of Directors of Society of

Petroleum Engineers (Stavanger chapter) as the Chair of scholarships, as

the Co-coordinator of the European Network for Strategic Engineering

Asset Management (EURENSEAM), and is a Founding Fellow of the ISEAM

(International Society of Engineering Asset Management). He is actively

involved in joint industry projects both at advisory and managerial

capacities, and also currently serves as the principal and external advisor for a number of PhD projects.
JP’s key note has the title:
“Human factors towards the 21st Century: A critical foresight into the future”

Pete Kercher 

Pete is Ambassador of EIDD - Design for All Europe, for which he served as

President from 2003 to 2007. With experience managing international

Research projects in the field, he will speak about Design for All and Universal

Design. Pete will focus on implications of holistic socio-economic inclusion in

the workplace and workspace.

Dordi Høivik is Vice president Health and working environment in Statoil ASA, a Norwegian energy company. She is educated as a Physiotherapist with a MSC in Physical therapy and titled as specialist in preventive physiotherapy and ergonomics. She has a Phd from Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, Research Group for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of Bergen, Norway. She will talk about her research regarding health, safety and environment culture in the petroleum industry and how this may be used in strategic ways for proactive ergonomists.