Human factors design criteria for safe use of consumer products

1983 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph P. Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Consumer Products ◽  
Design Criteria

Human Factors Design Criteria for Safe Use of Consumer Products

1983 ◽  
Vol 27 (9) ◽  
pp. 811-815 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph P. Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Consumer Products ◽  
Design Criteria ◽  
Great Contribution ◽  
Safe Product ◽  
Risk Acceptance ◽  
Traditional Approaches ◽  
Reasonable Use ◽  
Hazard Warning

The increasing number of suits filed each year in courts arising from personal injuries while using consumer products indicates safety in design needs immediate evaluation. Human Factors engineers can make a great contribution in this area, especially by working more closely with traditional approaches to product design. Many engineers who are responsible for design, testing, and quality control have not had the benefit of training in ergonomics and psychology. As a result, many products sold in the marketplace today reflect too-high a risk acceptance for the ordinary consumer. This paper describes criteria for safe design of consumer products based on foreseeable and reasonable use of products. Sources of product standards relating to performance and safety are presented. Safe product design criteria based on risk, reliability, foreseeability, psychological considerations, and hazard warning are presented.

The Bed and Its Human Factors Aspects

1981 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 325-328
Author(s):  
Edmond W. Israelski
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Human Factors ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Physical Stress ◽  
Design Criteria ◽  
Frequency Of Occurrence

Activities performed requiring the use of the bed were investigated where their frequency of occurrence and their potential for physical stress of the bed were analyzed. A total of 35 bed related activities, in addition to sleeping, were reported through the use of a questionnaire survey of 92 middle class adults. Implications for bed design criteria are discussed.

scholarly journals Ergonomics - Future Perspectives

1976 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. J. McCormick
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Human Factors ◽  
Consumer Products ◽  
Human Factors Engineering ◽  
Future Perspectives ◽  
Work Activities ◽  
Basic Task ◽  
Basic Distinction ◽  
The Military

Ergonomics (a synonym for human factors engineering) has contributed significantly to fundamental effectiveness of people, but needs a new emphasis and wider applications in future. A basic distinction is drawn between the areas of application and the focus of ergonomists. Although applications have been relatively successful in the military and industrial fields, ergonomics should also be applied to consumer products, architecture, transportation and recreation. In future, the primary challenge will be to improve the "quality of life" by enhancing human satisfaction and allowing people to function at higher value levels. In work activities the basic task of ergonomics has been to simplify and standardise jobs, but future focus should be on enlargement and enrichment of jobs. Because of individual differences probably not all jobs could be made completely satisfactory to all workers. However, significant contributions could be made through continued efforts to “humanise” work activities.Opsomming Ergonomika ('n sinoniem vir "human factors engineering") het reeds heelwat bygedra tot die doeltreffende funksionering van die mens, maar nuwe gesigspunte en toepassingsvelde sal in die toekoms nodig wees. 'n Fundamentele onderskeid word getref tussen die gebiede van toepassing en die fokus van beoefenaars van die ergonomika. Hoewel toepassings in die militêre en industriële sfere redelik suksesvol was, behoort ergonomiese beginsels ook op verbruikerswese, argitektuur, vervoer en ontspanning toegepas te word. Die grootste uitdaging in die toekoms sal egter wees om "lewenskwaliteit" te verbeter deur tevredenheid te verhoog en mense te help om doeltreffender te leef en in die proses hoër waardevlakke te handhaaf. In werksaktiwiteite was die hoofdoel tot dusver om werk te standaardiseer en te vereenvoudig, maar dit word al hoe noodsaakliker dat poste verruim en verryk moet word. Waarskynlik sal alle poste nie vir alle bekleërs volkome bevredigend gemaak kan word nie, maar dit sou tog nuttig wees om heelwat meer aandag aan die "humanisering" van werksaktiwiteite te gee.

Machine Learning and Human Factors: Status, Applications, and Future Directions

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan Lau ◽  
Lex Fridman ◽  
Brett J. Borghetti ◽  
John D. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Human Factors ◽  
Interaction Design ◽  
Intelligent Systems ◽  
Consumer Products ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Industrial Systems ◽  
Human Factors Research ◽  
And Training

As machine learning approaches ubiquity in industrial systems and consumer products, human factors research must attend to machine learning, specifically on how intelligent systems built on machine learning are different from early generations of automated systems, and what these differences mean for human-system interaction, design, evaluation and training. This panel invites five researchers in different domains to discuss how human factors can contribute to machine learning research and applications, as well as how machine learning presents both challenges and contributions for human factors.

The Interpretation of Human Factors Design Criteria for Nuclear Power Plant Control Room Reviews

1983 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-27
Author(s):  
Michael E. Maddox
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Fundamental Problem ◽  
Nuclear Industry ◽  
Design Criteria ◽  
Control Room ◽  
Design Standards ◽  
Room Design ◽  
Power Plant Control ◽  
The Military

As a result of the Three Mile Island-Unit 2 (TMI) accident and subsequent investigations, all U.S. nuclear utilities are being required to review the control rooms in their nuclear generating plants for human factors design adequacy. Before TMI, human factors considerations were not an integral part of the design process in the nuclear industry. The utilities were not well equipped to handle the requirement for control room design reviews (CRDR), so, in an attempt to provide useable guidance for CRDR's, the NRC issued several documents that were based on military design standards and commonly-used equipment design guides. A fundamental problem with the guidance issued by the NRC and others is that much of the design guidance is not directly applicable to a review and backfit process such as the CRDR. This paper presents a description of the ongoing process of applying human factors design criteria from the military and aerospace arena to the review and backfit activities in the nuclear utility industry. This process has, and is, taking place in a broad-based utility working group to which the author acts as a consultant. The work includes a large educational segment in which techniques, such as task analysis, are made explicity applicable to the CRDR. So far, this activity has resulted in four guidelines that have been reviewed by the nuclear utilities.

A Computer-Based Undergraduate Course in Human Factors

1981 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 243-244
Author(s):  
Richard Halstead-Nussloch
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Simulated Data ◽  
Design Criteria ◽  
Laboratory Course ◽  
Computer Tools ◽  
Hands On ◽  
National Science ◽  
Undergraduate Laboratory ◽  
Computer Based

A project, aiming to improve the undergraduate laboratory course in human factors, is ongoing at Stevens. It is funded by the National Science Foundation and Stevens. Six instructional modules are either developed or under development. The modules use computers to first give students a direct hands-on experience of critical concepts and phenomena, and then have them infer design criteria from simulated data. The computer tools appear to qualitatively change the course from one of passive absorbtion of human factors concepts and principles to active development of these concepts, principles and design criteria.

Human Factors Design Criteria for Transilluminated Displays

1977 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-82
Author(s):  
Robert J. Hall ◽  
James C. Sanderlin
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Data Base ◽  
Physical Simulation ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Design Criteria ◽  
Human Engineering ◽  
Modeling Tools ◽  
Data Base Design ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Base Design

This paper reviews recent studies of human factors design criteria for transilluminated displays and the development of a computerized data base and modeling tools to supplement human engineering design criteria for visual displays. The inherent limitations of present military standards for dealing with a wide range of variables in a variety of operational environments and the need to include changes in the state-of-the-art are addressed. Data base design and computer modeling are suggested as an intermediate approach between out of date standards and costly physical simulation.

The Human Factors Usability Laboratory in Product Evaluation

1985 ◽  
Vol 29 (10) ◽  
pp. 950-952 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denise CR. Benel ◽  
Richard F. Pain
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Product Evaluation ◽  
Consumer Products ◽  
Personal Computers ◽  
Practical Advice ◽  
Technology Products ◽  
Interactive Session ◽  
At Home

A wide variety of consumer products ranging from infant toys and furniture to home workshop tools to personal computers and software are intended for use by people of all sizes, abilities, and temperaments. Usability laboratories are dedicated to evaluating and improving the compatibility of people and the technology (products) they are expected to use on the job, in their hobbies, and at home. The purpose of the proposed interactive session is to demonstrate the concept of the usability laboratory. The session will deal with some of the human factors issues that designers and others concerned with consumer products need to be aware of. It will include practical advice on how to incorporate human factors into product design so that the product will be usable by the consumer. This will be accomplished by the use of posters and demonstrations that involve the evaluation of a sample of consumer products, including microcomputers and children's toys.

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