Human factors in consumer products / edited by Neville Stanton.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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