Designers consider physiological factors to ensure products meet ergonomic needs.

Designers study physical characteristics to optimize the user’s safety, health, comfort and performance.

• Physiological factor data

• Comfort and fatigue

• Biomechanics

• Types of physiological factor data available to designers and how they are collected

• How data related to comfort and fatigue informs design decisions

• The importance of biomechanics to the design of different products considering muscle strength, age,

user interface and torque

Understanding complex biomechanics when designing products to enable full functionality of body parts can return independence and personal and social wellbeing to an individual.