Ergonomics and Anthropometrics

Question 1

What does the term ergonomics mean?

Answer 1

The study of how well and comfortably people can interact with products and systems.

Question 2

What should ergonomics do to people and how?

Answer 2

Ergonomics should improve the peoples lives when using products by increasing their comfort and satisfaction.

Question 3

What does the term anthropometrics mean?

Answer 3

Is the practice of taking measurements of the human body and provides categorised data that can be used by designers.

Question 4

How does anthropometrics help designers?

Answer 4

Anthropometrics help designers collect useful data.

Question 5

How is the data for anthropometrics taken and what is it recorded as?

Answer 5

This data is taken from measurements of hundreds of volunteers and is normally recorded as percentiles.

Question 6

What percentile are products usually designed in?

Answer 6

5th and 95th percentile.

Question 7

What is the average percentile?

Answer 7

50th percentile