Medical Device and Equipment Design: Usability Engineering and Ergonomics [Hardcover]

Michael E. Wiklund (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 15, 1995 | ISBN-10: 0935184694 | ISBN-13: 978-0935184693 | Edition: 1

The key to profitability and success in both the medical device and the equipment markets often relates to how easy your products are to use. User acceptance and preference frequently is dependent upon ergonomic design.

Medical Device and Equipment Design helps you enhance your product design, maximize user acceptance, and minimize potential problems in the marketplace. It provides practical guidance on how to plan and incorporate ergonomic design principles into medical devices and equipment so users intuitively feel comfortable with the product.

Design engineers, usability and reliability engineers, software programmers, documentation specialists, product managers, quality engineers, and market/product managers will find this text invaluable in getting usability built into products from the very beginning.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 398 pages
• Publisher: CRC Press; 1 edition (February 15, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0935184694
• ISBN-13: 978-0935184693
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,899,302 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Great book, terrible price, July 11, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Medical Device and Equipment Design: Usability Engineering and Ergonomics (Hardcover)

The writing and coverage of this book are both excellent. It is in fact the only book on the topic of designing user interfaces for medical equipment. The price, however, is staggering. Be certain that you will need this book before plunking down that much money. At that price, one would expect it to be in full color--and some of the graphics in the book really suffer for being black and white.

Wiklund covers a great deal of the medical device design process with specific examples. At seven years old, the book is also becoming a bit dated--it is time for a revision.

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3.0 out of 5 stars A good start if your a budding medical inventor, April 12, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Medical Device and Equipment Design: Usability Engineering and Ergonomics (Hardcover)

I ordered this book with the idea that this would give me an understanding of the environment that our company is going to put our product into, not so. This is a book for the budding medical inventor who wants to have a basic understanding of the hoops they are going to have to jump thru to get their product to market or even before an interested medical company. This it does quite well and goes on to list other resources that dive more deeply and completely into the FDA, ISO, and other bureaucracies you'll face.