Management and Organizational Studies 3305A/B Lecture Notes - Information Access, Collocation, Anthropometry

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Anthropometrics are the study + measurement of human dimensions: used to redesign systems based on body dimensions. Can be rejected from air crew selection if body doesn"t fit the machines. Used in the design of: clothing asians have smaller sizes, bicycles, automobiles, hand-tools. There are a wide range of variables: example: between the smallest female and the tallest male. We want to increase comfort want to maximize thinking capacity for tasks performance. Displays located so high that operators must stand on ladders to read values. In some us navy aircraft: 10% of controls are beyond reach of tallest aviators, 70% of emergency controls were beyond reach of shortest aviators. We don"t design things to match everyone, because it"d be expensive. Sex variability: men are larger (women 92% of men) If a piece of equipment was designed to fit 90% of the male us population, it would fit. 10% of vietnamese: black people have longer arms.

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