Best Ergonomic Online Stores Part 8 Where do you go when you need ergonomic-related information on the web? What about repetitive Stress Injuries (RSI), a moniker that is broader than the more restrictive Carpal Tunnel Syndrome? Ergonomic resources are spread very wide horizontally, but few of them can be said to be go-to, authoritative sources.
Ergonomic How-tos
- OSHA computer workstations etool has a good set of materials on properly setting up computer workstations
- University of Western Ontario Computer Workstation Set-up Guide: maybe the best sequential guide for setting up your workstation that we have found on the web, simple and fully guided
- Smith College Ergonomics site offers a compact, but well designed set of pages, discussing good work ergonomics practices.
- U Nebraska RSI page: synthetic information about RSI with tips and links to further resoruces. A good place to go to to start - clear, fast to read.
- UC Riverside library ergonomics tips page - brief and useful list of tips and how-tos.
- Dr Charles Daniels ergonomic tips: old but simple and synthetic, generic tips about office computer ergonomics
- About.com ergonomics: not as out-of-date as other about.com sites, some useful information
- Safe computing tips: broad tips site on most common office ergonomic issues, inlcuding RSIs - of fair to good quality
- 50 best ergonomic practices by OEDb, a good set of computer user tips
- Typing Injury FAQs - another broad tips site, old fashioned presentation but complete set of discussions on computer-related ergonomics and injuries.
- CUErgo -an outstanding site by Cornell University Ergonomic Lab, mixing an excellent set of ergonomic how-tos and resources with research information and results.
- Ergonomics Made Easy, a commercial store that we already reviewed, has a learning center with a large number of useful ergonomics- and RSI-related articles
- Top 10 ergonomic upgrades by lifehacker, along with lifehacker changing positions guide: focused and very useful, by computer users for computer users
Other Ergonomic Links
- RSI-Relief - a site for RSI sufferers, including on-site information and links
- Ergoweb forums: really for professionals, not for people with RSI
- New Ergonomic Chair offers comparative reviews of high-end ergonomic chairs on a blog
- Office Chair Advice is an excellent site by industry veteran Duncan MacIntyre, which provides reviews and insight on ergonomic office chairs. It also comes with a provocative blog.
- Ankrum Associates has a series of good articles on ergonomics, despite the slightly broken article category page.
- ErgoStoreOnline has a good set of ergonomic links.
- Eye2Eye is a commercial site focused don computer vision strain issues, with some interesting information.
- Ergonomics.org is not, as its name would lead us to believe, a general purpose non-profit site about ergonomics, but is focused on the Alexander Technique, a pre-computers method about posture and muscle relaxation linked to benefits in RSI prevention and alleviation.
- SpineUniverse and Spine-Health are interesting sites focused primarily on back pain and back pain resources. However, there are numerous peer-reviewed articles on ergonomic topics, such as this keyboard article or this ergonomic chairs article.
- Usernomics expertise center: a very good site for a preeminent ergonomic consulting firm, with a large collection of links, unfortunately quite dated and frequently incorrect.
- Usability News: an excellent site and feed of latest news on usability.
- Workrite ergonomic links, a good list of links by ergonomics manufacturer Workrite, fairly current, but does not include links to how-tos.
- Cornell UNiversity Ergo lab ergonomic information for children.
- Geekhack: amazingly there are no good forums that we could find for ergonomics users and RSIs, but geekhacks is the forum where we find the most references to these topics.
Non-Commercial Ergonomic Blogs
Commercial Blogs
- The Human Solution blog
- Ergonomics Made Easy blog
- Ergonomic Edge blog
- Ergonomically Yours blog
- Sit Better blog
- Smart Furniture blog
- Smart Furniture Employee blog
- Ask Ergo Works blog
- The Ergonomic Store blog
And, last but not least...
The Most Fun Links
- Exercise ball workouts
- Bad designs is a fun site, by Michael Darnell, which displays and illustrates badly designed everyday objects and tools. Recommended in conjunction with the seminal usability book The Design of Everyday Things.
- The cheesiest and funniest commercial advertising video ever by Kinesis - this hilarious video makes it worth buying a Kinesis keyboard (they are very good, btw) on its own:-)
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