Introduction

Human factors and ergonomics is the application of psychological (the mind) and physiological (the body) principles to the engineering and design of products, processes, and systems. Use the links in the embedded website ergonomic4schools to navigate and learn more about the subject. Further information is given about the specific area of science called anthropometrics. You can also view a copy of anthropometric data. This data is now over thirty years old, however useful as a starting point.