Disputes sur l’ergonomie de la tâche et de l’activité, ou la finalité de l’ergonomie en question

Abstract

Ergonomics is based on the distinction between task and activity. As time goes, different ways of teaching and practicing this distinction come out of course, lukyfully, which give evidence to deeper distinctions related to the very objectives of ergonomics. Thus, such important differences cannot be only said but debated, the opportunity of which is taken here when dis- cussing Maurice de Montmollin last book. Opposing the way he charges social sciences and ergonomics (and ergonomists) with inefficiency, the authors intend to drive out pretences from the so called ergonomic com- munity consensus about the meaning of “activity” and the knowledge of it. Behind these pretences, important oppositions on the place and the role of ergonomists in changing work conditions are discussed, and the dispute leads to examining new frame and contents of multidisciplinarity in modern ergonomics.

Keywords

• task
• activity
• intervention
• clinic step
• multidisciplinarity