Human factors and ergonomics in consumer product design : uses and applications / / edited by Waldemar Karwowski, Marcelo M. Soares, Neville A. Stanton

• Pubblicazione: Boca Raton, Fla. : , : CRC Press, , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (512 p.)
• Disciplina: 620.82
• Soggetto topico: Human engineering -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Mechanical Engineering; Engineering & Applied Sciences; Industrial & Management Engineering
• Altri autori: KarwowskiWaldemar <1953-> SoaresMarcelo M StantonNeville A
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Editors; Contributors; Chapter 1: Reducing the Risk to Consumers: Implications for Designing Safe Consumer Products; Chapter 2: Consumer Product Risk Assessment; Chapter 3: Hazard Control Hierarchy and Its Utility in Safety Decisions about Consumer Products; Chapter 4: Communication-Human Information Processing Stages in Consumer Product Warnings; Chapter 5: Safety Design under the Perspective of Ergonomics in Consumer Products: Accident Studies in Users Welfare Promotion ; Chapter 6: Product Design Issues Related to Safe Patient Handling TechnologyChapter 7: Ergonomics of Packaging; Chapter 8: User Research by Designers; Chapter 9: Near Field Communication: Usability of a Technology; Chapter 10: Empathy Meets Engineering: Implanting the User's Perspective into a Systematic Design Process; Chapter 11: Building Empathy with the User; Chapter 12: Usability Testing of Three Prototype In-Vehicle Information Systems; Chapter 13: Ergonomics and Usability in an International Context; Chapter 14: Consumer eHealth ; Chapter 15: Consumer Behavior of Employees Using Information and Communication Technology Products in an Organizational SettingChapter 16: Constraint-Based Approach to Design; Chapter 17: Development of a Media Player: Ambition and Constraints in the Consumer Electronics Industry; Chapter 18: Interaction Design for Mobile Phones; Chapter 19: Human Factors in Protective Headgear Design; Chapter 20: Creating a User-Centered Supermarket Checkout; Chapter 21: Design and Development of an Interactive Kiosk for Customers of Jobcentre Plus ; Chapter 22: Participatory Method for Evaluating Office Chairs: A Case StudyChapter 23: Procedural Pictorial Sequences for Health Product Design: A Study of Male and Female Condoms Conducted with Adults with a Low Level of Literacy in Brazil; Chapter 24: Special Needs in Pleasure-Based Products Design: A Case Study; Chapter 25: Applied Anthropometry in Ergonomic Design for School Furniture; Chapter 26: Anthropometric Fitting of Office Furniture for Mexican Users; Chapter 27: User-Centered Approach for Sailing Yacht Design ; Chapter 28: Design for Driver's Comfort: Discomfort Assessment and Discomfort Manifestation among Professional and Amateur Car DriversChapter 29: Ergonomics as a Strategy Tool: An Approach through Design; Back Cover
• Sommario/riassunto: Every day we interact with thousands of consumer products. We not only expect them to perform their functions safely, reliably, and efficiently, but also to do it so seamlessly that we don't even think about it. However, with the many factors involved in consumer product design, from the application of human factors and ergonomics principles to reducing risks of malfunction and the total life cycle cost, well, the process just seems to get more complex. Edited by well-known and well-respected experts, the two-volumes of Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Consumer Product Design
• Titolo autorizzato: Human factors and ergonomics in consumer product design
• ISBN: 0-429-14396-6; 1-283-25724-6; 9786613257246; 1-4200-4625-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810119303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Handbook of Human Factors in Consumer Product Design