Addressing human factors and ergonomics in design process, product life cycle, and innovation: Trends in consumer product design

Human Factors and Ergonomics in Consumer Product Design: Methods and Techniques

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 133-154

  Acosta, Gabriel García ^a   Morales, Karen Lange ^b   Lagos, David Ernesto Puentes ^b   Ortiz, Manuel Ricardo Ruiz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSUMER PRODUCTS; ERGONOMICS; PRODUCT DESIGN;

DESIGN AND INNOVATIONS; DEVELOPMENT COSTS; HIGH-QUALITY PRODUCTS; HUMAN FACTORS AND ERGONOMICS; NUMBER OF METHODS; PRODUCT LIFE CYCLES; TECHNOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY; WHOLE PRODUCT LIFE;

LIFE CYCLE;

EID: 84880708883     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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