Doctor of Production Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (COPPE/UFRJ), Brazil. Specialist in Ergonomics (COPPE/UFRJ) and in Occupational Safety Engineering (UFPB). Associate Professor and researcher at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). Coordinator of the Extension and Research Group in Ergonomics (GREPE) at UFRN, member of the Interdisciplinary Research Center on Disasters (NUPED) at UFRN, and member of the Brazilian Network of Ergonomics and Resilience (Rede BResil). Coordinator of the Technical Committee for Teaching and Training in Ergonomics (CTEFE) of ABERGO.
EDUCATION
Human Factors and Ergonomics; Work Health and Safety; Patiente Safety; Resilience
RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS
Human Factors and Ergonomics, Safety Research, Multidisciplinary
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Scopus Publications
Scopus Publications
Sistema Multimodal de Apoio ao Gerenciamento de Riscos de Desastres 17th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese Propor 2026, 2026
Conducting workshops with focus groups: a survey of elementary school students I to investigate the perception of disaster risks Adricia Fonseca Mendes, Ricardo José Matos de Carvalho Revista De Geociencias do Nordeste, 2019 Crianças em idade escolar do ensino fundamental I passam pelo menos 20% do tempo diário e, aproximadamente, 35% do tempo que fica acordado dentro da escola. Apesar da condição de vulnerabilidade em que poderão se encontrar, as crianças não podem ser vistas como vítimas passivas frente aos desastres, porque, elas podem agir nestas situações, e também participar de todos os assuntos que afetam suas vidas. Diante disso, esta pesquisa visa conhecer qual é a percepção que os alunos do 5° ano do Ensino Fundamental I de uma escola pública estadual do bairro de Mãe Luíza (Natal/RN) têm dos riscos de desastres relacionados ao bairro onde moram/estudam e suas escolas. Para tanto, foram realizadas quatro oficinas em que os alunos foram convidados a falar sobre suas percepções acerca de riscos de desastres, a partir dos seguintes temas motivadores: noções de desastres, causas dos desastres, possibilidade da ocorrência dos desastres, memórias do deslizamento de terra ocorrido em 2014 no bairro de Mãe Luíza, comunicação referente ao risco de desastres e relação entre a comunidade e as instituições envolvidas na gestão de risco de desastre. Dentre os principais resultados estão as dificuldades demonstradas pelos alunos referentes à compreensão da noção de desastres e de suas causas e a limitação do conhecimento que eles têm do órgão de Proteção e Defesa Civil municipal. Pretende-se com os resultados desta pesquisa contribuir com a formulação de políticas públicas e ações de proteção e defesa civil.
ERGOPOLIS: An ergonomics approach applied to a city Ricardo José Matos de Carvalho Work, 2012 Ergopolis defines itself as an idea for thinking and transforming the city from the understanding of its own complexity and the complex human activity in it. The city is a living social organism where social production and reproduction take place. It is a sociotechnical and human-technological system where transformations and adaptations occur. The current article aims to gather and present cognitive ergonomics approaches, ranging from anthropotechnology, macroergonomics, resilience engineering and situated economy as a feasible theoretical and methodological path to be used in the understanding of the urban problems related to health, safety, accessibility, usability, mobility, people comfort and environmental sustainability of the city. The city is a situated space through which people with distinct features, capabilities and limitations perform daily singular activities i.e. leisure, entertainment or work notwithstanding whether they have economic and/or profitable aims or not.
Ergonomics and accessibility for people with visual impairment in hotels Larissa Nascimento dos Santos, Ricardo José Matos de Carvalho Work, 2012 This article presents a diagnosis of luxury or superior hotels in the city of Natal, located in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, in northeastern Brazil, in what concerns accessibility to the visually impaired. The main objective is to present the guiding principles to design actions and interventions that must be considered in the preparation or revision of technical standards and manuals of good practice in accessibility related to people with visual impairments who are hotel users. The survey showed that the hotels do not meet the normative indications of accessibility, their facilities are in-accessible (have prevented access) or of reduced accessibility and its employees are not prepared to provide adequate hospital services for people with visual impairment. It was concluded that some of the accessibility problems faced by people with visual impairments are also faced by people in general.
