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

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.