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The design of consumer products has a central role in its potential for contributing to a healthier living and working space. However, too often consumers are only aware of the designers' role when bad practice manifestly exacerbates the easy application of basic functionality. This important book places human factors perspective firmly at the centre of good practice in consumer product design, encouraging rigorous human factors evaluation and methodology as an essential component of the design process.
The book's central theme is to introduce human factors techniques to consumer product design and the efficacy of the approach is illustrated with several case studies from a diverse variety of products. Products addressed range from scissors to strimers, from pens to power tools, from kettles to cookers, from radio-cassettes to rucksacks, adn from razors to VCRs. Techniques brought to bear on the devices include: checklists, hierarchical task analysis, observations, interviews, error prediction, questionnaires, guidelines, focus groups, simulations and user trials.
Key Features:
* Foreword by Sean Blair of the Design Council
* Valuable resource for professionals, academics and students in both human factors engineering and design
* Fosters an approach which integrates the skills of both professions in a successful approach to consumer product design
* Includes plenty of examples throughout the book
The book's central theme is to introduce human factors techniques to consumer product design and the efficacy of the approach is illustrated with several case studies from a diverse variety of products. Products addressed range from scissors to strimers, from pens to power tools, from kettles to cookers, from radio-cassettes to rucksacks, adn from razors to VCRs. Techniques brought to bear on the devices include: checklists, hierarchical task analysis, observations, interviews, error prediction, questionnaires, guidelines, focus groups, simulations and user trials.
Key Features:
* Foreword by Sean Blair of the Design Council
* Valuable resource for professionals, academics and students in both human factors engineering and design
* Fosters an approach which integrates the skills of both professions in a successful approach to consumer product design
* Includes plenty of examples throughout the book
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Engineering is concerned with improving products from the point of view of mechanical and electrical design, and psychology is concerned with the study of the mind and behaviour. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
minutes divisible, predicting human error, task analysis for error identification, symbol variants, public information symbols, paired symbols, ergonomics methods, consumer product design, user trials, keystroke level model, illegal transitions, hierarchical task analysis, product creation process, human factors professionals, ergonomics evaluation, estimation score, expert appraisal, visual prototype, layout analysis, ergonomic evaluation, estimation test, usability evaluation, foam model, pinch grip, human factors specialists Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Applied Ergonomics, New York, Annual Meeting, Contemporary Ergonomics, Evaluation of Human Work, General Product Safety Regulations, Santa Monica, British Standards Institution, Cambridge University Press, Consumer Safety Unit, Design Council, University of Southampton, Basic Books, Consumer Protection Act, Engineering Design, Consumer Safety Institute, Department of Psychology, Safety Science, Van Weperen, Academic Press, Copley Publishing Group, Ellis Horwood, High Design, Immediate Label, International Mining Consultants Ltd New!
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Engineering is concerned with improving products from the point of view of mechanical and electrical design, and psychology is concerned with the study of the mind and behaviour. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
minutes divisible, predicting human error, task analysis for error identification, symbol variants, public information symbols, paired symbols, ergonomics methods, consumer product design, user trials, keystroke level model, illegal transitions, hierarchical task analysis, product creation process, human factors professionals, ergonomics evaluation, estimation score, expert appraisal, visual prototype, layout analysis, ergonomic evaluation, estimation test, usability evaluation, foam model, pinch grip, human factors specialists Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Applied Ergonomics, New York, Annual Meeting, Contemporary Ergonomics, Evaluation of Human Work, General Product Safety Regulations, Santa Monica, British Standards Institution, Cambridge University Press, Consumer Safety Unit, Design Council, University of Southampton, Basic Books, Consumer Protection Act, Engineering Design, Consumer Safety Institute, Department of Psychology, Safety Science, Van Weperen, Academic Press, Copley Publishing Group, Ellis Horwood, High Design, Immediate Label, International Mining Consultants Ltd New!
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- The Psychology Of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman on 5 pages
- Task Analysis by John Annett on 4 pages
- Human Error by James Reason on page 17, page 75, and page 90
- Contemporary Ergonomics: Ergonomics for Industry by E. J. Lovesay on page 73, page 157, and page 256
- Human Factors In Engineering and Design by Mark Sanders on page 17, page 238, and page 257
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- Guide to Methodology in Ergonomics: Designing for Human Use by Neville A. Stanton on 6 pages
- User-Centred Design of Systems by Jan Noyes on page 102, page 211, and page 214
- User Interface Design of Electronic Appliances by Konrad Baumann in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Designing for Older Adults: Principles and Creative Human Factors Approaches by Arthur D. Fisk on page 45, and Back Matter
- Human Factors Methods for Design: Making Systems Human-Centered by Christopher P. Nemeth in Front Matter
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