Surfing the Internet Exercises

Exercise $1$

You are on the ergonomics committee for the new office complex your company

is planning to build. Your company wants to make certain its new offices are

ergonomically correct. Your committee's function is to obtain information that

identifies an ergonomically correct office design. As a committee member, your

assignment is to search the internet.

Connect to the internet and access a search engine such as Google or

Yahoo!

Enter the following key search words: health, articles, ergonomics.

Browse through the listings, then summarize or print any information you

could use in your report to the committee.

Enter a new search or refine your search by entering the following words:

office design, ergonomics.

Repeat step $3.$

Using the information you found, write a report on the importance of designing

ergonomically correct offices. Include any recommendations about design that

would help your company meet this goal.