Sobre a Psicologia Ergonómica de Jacques Leplat

Abstract

We intend with this article to concisely present the theoretical-methodological conception of ergonomic psychology constructed along various decades by Professor Jacques Leplat. We organized the present synthesis in three parts. In the first part we make a general presentation of the Leplat conceptions about ergonomic psychology and its relation with ergonomics; design the relations and specificities of the psychological analysis of activity and the ergonomic analysis of work; and end with an analysis model, broadly disseminated in the author´s texts. In the second part we focus on two perspectives of activity analysis: analysis focused on the task and analysis focused on its agent, the operator. In the third part we develop the properties, benefits and limitations of similar methods used in this analysis.

Keywords

• Ergonomic psychology
• psychological analysis of work
• task
• activity
• methods