Transcript Product Design Unit 1

•ERGONOMICS
WHAT IS ERGONOMICS?
The study of people and their relationship
with the environment around them.
ANTHROPOMETRICS PHYSIOLOGY
PSYCHOLOGY
•Height
•Bodily strength
Study of behaviour
•Arm length
•Fatigue
•Reaction to heat
•Reach
•Reaction times
•Colour
•Noise
Anthropometrics
THE STUDY OF FACTS AND FIGURES RELATING TO THE
HUMAN BODY SUCH AS HEIGHT, ARM LENGTH, WEIGHT,
ETC.
Designing products that ‘fit’ humans is know as ergonomics. This
field was pioneered by Henry Dreyfuss (1900’s) an American
industrial designer who collected an enormous amount of
information about the human anatomy relevant to design.
This data, compiled for all sizes and shapes of people, is called
anthropometric data and the study became known as
anthropometrics.
Anthropometrics……
Henry Dreyfuss used statistics to compile tables
that would make the information collected
useable. He broke the population down into men
and women, children of different age groups,
people seated and people standing, people in
wheelchairs, and many other categories.
5th-95th percentile range
5th, 50th, or 95th?
Anthropometry for Seat Design
Ergonomic Factors
•Ease of use
•Comfortable grip
•Grip
•Shape
•Weight
Doctor’s surgery
What ergonomic factors contribute to the successful design of a doctor’s surgery?
Anthropometric Data
•Physical space
•Accommodate all patients
•……
Psychology
•Colour scheme
•Relaxing
•……
Physiology
Under each ergonomic factor –
can you think of any more?
•The flow of the room, waiting
area to reception to doctors
room
•……