Dynamic Anthropometry

The object of Dynamic Anthropometry is to establish norms, guidelines, insights and methods, enabling designers to make better choices when specifying functions, materials, forms, operations and usage within the aforementioned group of products. The adjustment of product design to the users includes efficiency, comfort and safety of handling.

These examples of projects you might get a clearer picture of our field.

Projects

GENIE project
project date: from 1998 till 2002
http://ergonomics.io.tudelft.nl/genie/

FRR project
project date: from 2003
http://www.is.tuwien.ac.at/fortec/reha.e/projects/frr/frr.html

Books

Kids & youth

Child development, design implications and accident prevention
Author: Steenbekkers, L.P.A.
Year: 1993
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youth, adults & seniors

Human force exertion in user-product interaction
Author: Daams, B.J.
Year: 1994
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kids, youth & adults

Sitting posture, comfort and pressure
Author: Staarink, H.A.M.
Year: 1995
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youth & adults

Made to measure (Op maat gemaakt)
Author: Molenbroek, J.F.M.
Year: 1994
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Arm movements in operating rotary controls
Author: van der Vaart, A.J.M.
Year: 1995
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Design-relevant characteristics of aging users
Author: Steenbekkers, L.P.A., (ed.); Van Beijsterveldt, C.E.M., (ed.)
Year: 1998
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The design of home appliances for young and old consumers
Author: Freudenthal, A.
Year: 1999
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Fit for washing; Human factors and ergonomic evaluations of washing machines
Author: Busch, N.
Year: 2006
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Using artificial neural networks for the transformation of human body postures based on landmarks
Author: Zhang, B.
Year: 2005
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Comfort in Using Hand Tools
Author: Kuijt-Evers, L.F.M.
Year: 2007
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