Description: This book delivers an authoritative and practical account of methods that incorporate human capabilities and limitations, environmental factors, human-machine interaction, and other factors into system design. It describes 83 methods in a standardized format, promoting the use of methods that may have formerly been unfamiliar to designers. Each of the six sections covers a specialized field of ergonomics with a representative selection of associated methods. The sections highlight facets of human factors and ergonomics in systems analysis, design, and evaluation. Standard descriptions of methods encourage browsing through several potential methods before tackling a problem.
Review Quotes: "Hanbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics Methods is one of the best resources to identify methods of tackling human factors (neck up) and ergonomics (neck down) problems encountered in greater society." -Professional Safety, Feb. 2006