ERGONOMICS

ERGONOMICS

1. Configure for all people can use it

2. Interaction betweeen people and products and systems

3. Etymology of the word

   • Ergo
   • nomos

4. New concept, was born in 1940

5. Make sure that products are adecuate for people

6. Design

   • Productive
   • Comfortable
   • Simply
   • Handling
   • Products
     • Adjustable
       • More people can use it
     • No adjustable
     • Specialiced
       • Depend of the conditions

7. Examples of uses

   • Can opener
   • Chairs
   • Tables
   • Controls
   • Microwave

8. Problem solving as

   • Screens
   • Handling
   • Difficult to configurate process

9. Depends of

   • Physical fit
     • Handling
     • Comfort
     • Space
     • Heoght
     • Reach
     • Strength
     • Visibility

10. To improve things

    • Consider what people think
    • Interprete information
    • Use layout of controls
    • Use symbols
      • If symbols are not interpeter
        • Desaster consecuences

11. Anthropometry

    • Etymology of the word
      • Anthropo
      • metrikos
    • Human body measurements, size and shape
    • Find information about people characteristics
    • Percentiles (5,50 and 95 %)