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Ergonomic Assessment in Conceptual and Embodiment Design

The aim of the study reported in this paper was to investigate the possibilities for ergonomic assessment in early phases of product development, focusing on the development of the metrics for ergonomic features that could be utilized by engineers in conceptualization and embodiment. The number of the ergonomic methods existing is huge, but most of them are developed for professionals often supported by equipment that is not available to the engineers in engineering design phase. The objective of the study was to identify key issues related to ergonomic assessment and to propose a general methodology for product development practitioners that don't have specific knowledge in ergonomics and possibilities to gain empirical studied. In particular, it was important to identify methodology that could be applied for the quick ergonomic assessment in engineering design, in order to support user centered design methodology. Proposed methodology is validated on example of medical diagnostic table. This paper firstly presents overview of the different ergonomic methods and challenges related to the consideration of the human factors in engineering design. The ergonomic assessment methodology based on the evaluation of the ergonomic features is then described, followed by evaluation case study results and discussion.

ergonomics assessment; inclusive design; user-centered design

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