title: A comprehensive approach to environmental and human factors into product/service design and development. A review from an ergoecological perspective.
abstract: This article presents the results of a documentary-exploratory review of design methods and concepts associated with human and environmental factors, based on a qualitative-quantitative analysis of coincidences with the fundamentals of ergoecology and in line with sustainable dynamics, with a view to putting the principles of ergoecology into practice in product/service design and development. 61.6% of 696 documents found represent work on conceptual developments, while the remaining 38.4% refer to design methods. Searches were refined using Nvivo-10 software, and 101 documents were obtained about theoretical aspects while 17 focused on the application of methods, and these formed the analysis universe. The results show how little concern there is for working comprehensively on human and environmental aspects, and a trend toward segmentation of human and environmental aspects in the field of product/service design and development can be seen, at both concept and application/methodology levels. It was concluded from the above that comprehensive, simultaneous work is needed on human and environmental aspects, clarity and conceptual unity, in order to achieve sustainability in practical matters and ensure that ergoecology-compatible design methods are applied.
authors.affiliation: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana - Bogotá, Faculty of Architecture and Design, Department of Design, Ergonomics and Innovation Research Group, Cra. 7 No.40-62, Edif 16, Bogotá, 110231, Colombia. Electronic address: saravia@javeriana.edu.co.
authors.forename: Martha H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Saravia-Pinilla
authors.affiliation: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana - Bogotá, Faculty of Architecture and Design, Department of Design, Ergonomics and Innovation Research Group, Cra. 7 No.40-62, Edif 16, Bogotá, 110231, Colombia.
authors.forename: Carolina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Daza-Beltrán
authors.affiliation: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Bogotá, Faculty of Arts, School of Industrial Design MIMAPRO Research Group, Ciudad Universitaria, Edif. SINDU, Bogotá D.C., 111321, Colombia; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Centre de Disseny d'Equips Industrials, C. Llorens Artigas, 4, planta 0, edifici U, Parc Tecnològic de Barcelona, Barcelona, 08028, Spain.
authors.forename: Gabriel
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: García-Acosta
mesh_terms: D003210:Concept Formation; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D004463:Ecology; D006804:Ergonomics / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans
keywords: Design methods; Human factors/ergonomics HFE; Sustainability