ABSTRACT
Community Ergonomics (CE) was developed from two parallel directions. On the one hand, CE emerged from existing theories and principles in human factors and ergonomics and behavioral cybernetics that could be used for situational assessment and solution-finding purposes at the societal level. On the other hand, CE also emerged from the careful and thorough documentation of specific applications in communities, which in turn led to additional principles and theories more contextually relevant to the societal level of analysis. As such, CE is a robust approach in its principles and a flexible practice in its applications; this combination is one key to the optimization of complex systems.
