Psychology 2990A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Human Factors And Ergonomics, Clan Mackintosh, Product Liability

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2990A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazlewood

Document Summary

Fitting the machine to the user & fitting the user to the machine. Prologue: names and definitions: other common names for the field: Ergonomics: definition (page 226): the science of designing machines for human use, and determining appropriate behaviors for the efficient operation of machines. Highlights the 2 goals that led to development of the field : fitting the machine to the user, fitting the user to the machine. Part 1: historical development: design the machine and ignore the user. Altitude displays in airplanes: too complex took 7 sec. to read; misread 12% of the time, design the machine and then fit the user to the machine. People thought they were not smart enough, but . The machines were originally designed to use by men women were not as tall and strong as men: train people to use the machine.