Human factors in consumer products / edited by Neville Stanton. - xviii, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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Industrial design--Psychological aspects
Consumer goods--Psychological aspects
Human engineering
Project management.
Industrial design

TS171.4 / .H86 1998

745.2019