ME 234 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Hazard Elimination, Sound Pressure, Bursitis
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Human factors, also known as ergonomics, is the study of the measurements, capabilities, and limitations of the human body and how humans and machines interact with each other. Workspace is the union of spaces that constitute the user and the machine. Is the collection of the measured physical dimensions, capabilities, and limitations of the human body. The civilian american and europen surface anthropometry resource (ceasar) project. Equally sampled groups of people based on gender, ethnicity, and age form the united states, the netherlands, and italy were measured in order to update anthropometric data (2002) Used for optimizing size and location of things such as door knobs, drinking fountains, control panels, door sizes, and much more. As a designer, you must always consider what accommodations are needed and what limits are appropriate for the function. Cad human figures with different ranges, genders, races, and percentiles. Relates to the way the interface between the human and the machine is approached.
