Proposition of Ergonomic Guidelines to Improve Usability of PLM Systems Interfaces

Part 10: PLM Virtual and Simulation EnvironmentsInternational audienceEvolutions of PLM systems are mainly directed towards the integration of more lifecycles stages to offer more PLM functions and information systems. At first, PLM were developed and intended only for engineers in detailed design phases. As engineers are familiar with complex and sparse interfaces, PLM software are not really ergonomic. The emerging problem in the past few years is the lack of evolution of PLM software, decreasing significantly its efficiency and utilization. But now, PLM integrate entire lifecycle of the product, so interfaces should be readjusted so that every actor, other than engineers, can easily use it.In this paper, we assume that simplify and dynamize PLM software interfaces, by meeting usability features and user experience, make the system more interactive and coherent. In a first time, two states of art are realized. The first is about PLM evolution and web interfaces, the second about user experience and usability. A combination between agile method and user-centred design method are applied to these states of art in order to generate PLM software prototypes. Finally, user tests will be conducted on these prototypes in an incrementally and iterative way to correct and to validate them. The final target is to propose some ergonomic guidelines in order to create a generic interface adapted to several kinds of PLM software

Field demonstration of technologies for characterization of uranium contamination in surface soils

One means of improving the efficiency of studies associated with CERCLA and RCRA investigations of. sites contaminated with uranium is to introduce new field screening technologies capable of quickly delineating the contamination distribution in surface soils. To this end, the performance of four technologies suitable for field measurement of uranium concentrations in soils was evaluated at the Fernald Environmental Management Project. The four technologies tested were high-resolution gamma spectroscopy, wide-area beta scintillation counting, laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectroscopy (LA-ICP-AES), and long-range alpha detection (LRAD). The performance of each technique was assessed by comparing of the results obtained in the field and by comparing the field measurements to data obtained from laboratory analysis of soil samples

No Place for a Left-winger: The Historical Relationship Between Football and the FARC in Colombia

This article explores the relationship between the FARC (the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) and football in Colombia. It argues that until the presidency of Juan Manuel Santos, the FARC had been excluded from being part of the national ‘us’ when celebrating successes of the national men’s football team. In fact, sporting nationalism projects articulated around World Cup successes in 1962, 1990, 1994 and the Copa América in 2001 projected the national football team as being symbolically representative of a nation against an ‘other’ that was Colombia itself. This other was the ‘Narcolombia’ of the FARC, drug traffickers, violence, terrorism and criminality that had become notorious internationally, and was the image most associated with the country. This rhetorical positioning shifted under Santos, when football became a bridge to allow the FARC back into the nation given the political backdrop of the peace negotiations between the government and the FARC