Human Factors and Ergonomics in Consumer Product Design: Uses and Applications

By Marcelo M. Soares

Book Overview

Edited by a pioneering researcher and expert, this comprehensive resource discusses how Human Factors provide a unique perspective on consumer product design that is critical to the marketplace. It supplies historical and contemporary theories of human interaction with consumer products and presents the interaction theories with a practical design perspective, to encourage designers to engage in theory-based design. The interaction theories will cover, but not be restricted to: the stimulus-response theories, stage-based theories, schema-based theories, information processing theories, social theories, resource theories, and contextual theories.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1420046241
• ISBN13: 9781420046243
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 524 Pages
• Weight: 2.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.0" x 10.0"