Human Factors In Consumer Products (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Stanton, Neville A.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The design of consumer products has a central role in its potential for contributing to a healthier living and working space. However, too often consumers are only aware of the designers' role when bad practice manifestly exacerbates the easy application of basic functionality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 1997
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000522181
• Artikelnr.: 72262396

Autorenporträt

Neville A. Stanton

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors. Foreword. Preface. 1. Product Design with People in Mind.
Part One. Methods in Product Design. 2. Ergonomics Methods in Consumer
Product Design and Evaluation. 3. Evaluation of Product Safety using the
BeSafe Method. 4. A System Analysis of Consumer Products. 5. Ergonomics and
the Evaluation of Consumer Products: Surveys of Evaluation Practices. Part
Two. Institutions Involved in Design and Evaluation of Consumer Products.
6. Application of Ergonomics and Consumer Feedback to Product Design at
Whirlpool. 7. Consumer Products - More by Accident than Design? 8.
Enhancing the Quality of Use: Human Factors at Philips. 9. Consumer Product
Evaluation: Which Method is Best? A Guide to Human Factors at Consumers'
Association. Part Three. Guidance on and Examples of Product Design. 10.
Developing an Qualitative Sense. 11. Applying Ergonomics Methods during the
Industrial Design of Consumer Products. 12. Design of Hand-Operated
Devices. 13. Development of Comprehensible Warning Symbols for Use on
Child-Care Products. 14. Towards Consumer Product Interface Design
Guidelines. Part Four. Key Topics. 15. Key Topics in Consumer Products.
Appendix. Author Index. Subject Index. People in Mind. Part One. Methods in
Product Design. 2. Ergonomics Methods in Consumer Product Design and
Evaluation. 3. Evaluation of Product Safety using the BeSafe Method. 4. A
System Analysis of Consumer Products. 5. Ergonomics and the Evaluation of
Consumer Products: Surveys of Evaluation Practices. Part Two. Institutions
Involved in Design and Evaluation of Consumer Products. 6. Application of
Ergonomics and Consumer Feedback to Product Design at Whirlpool. 7.
Consumer Products - More by Accident than Design? 8. Enhancing the Quality
of Use: Human Factors at Philips. 9. Consumer Product Evaluation: Which
Method is Best? A Guide to Human Factors at Consumers' Association. Part
Three. Guidance on and Examples of Product Design. 10. Developing an
Qualitative Sense. 11. Applying Ergonomics Methods during the Industrial
Design of Consumer Products. 12. Design of Hand-Operated Devices. 13.
Development of Comprehensible Warning Symbols for Use on Child-Care
Products. 14. Towards Consumer Product Interface Design Guidelines. Part
Four. Key Topics. 15. Key Topics in Consumer Products. Appendix. Author
Index. Subject Index.