APS111H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Foveal, Spatial Frequency, Wojciech
18 Nov 2015
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Aps111 lecture 27 human factors engineering: making technology work for. How to design systems that take advantage of people"s capabilities and compensate for their limitations. If a system doesn"t work for people, it doesn"t work (lund, 1996) A surprisingly difficult question: stakeholders: a) Controls of a mechanical lathe perfectly capable of machining metal. No path for feeding back user experience. Designers are not typical users are experts with devices: designers, users, designers know too much about devices and too little about how devices are are experts at tasks used. Fit the task and equipment to people rather than fit people to task and equipment. One of the main creators of ergonomics. Ergon (work), and nomos (principle or law: world war one. Introduction of equipment that not all soldiers could operate. A new idea: recognize individual capabilities and limitations: world war two. Begin to see that work requirements exceeded capabilities of people.
