Title: Ergonomics in the Automotive Design Process Author: Vivek D. Bhise ISBN: 1439842108 / 9781439842102 Format: Hard Cover Pages: 329 Publisher: CRC Press Year: 2011 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Description
Contents
The auto industry is facing tough competition and severe economic constraints. Their products need to be designed "right the first time" with the right combinations of features that not only satisfy the customers but continually please and delight them by providing increased functionality, comfort, convenience, safety, and craftsmanship. Based on the author's forty plus years of experience as a human factors researcher, engineer, manager, and teacher who has conducted numerous studies and analyses, Ergonomics in the Automotive Design Process covers the entire range of ergonomics issues involved in designing a car or truck and provides evaluation techniques to avoid costly mistakes and assure high customer satisfaction.
The book begins with the definitions and goals of ergonomics, historic background, and ergonomics approaches. It covers human characteristics, capabilities, and limitations considered in vehicle design in key areas such as anthropometry, biomechanics, and human information processing. It then examines how the driver and the occupants are positioned in the vehicle space and how package drawings and/or computer-aided design models are created from key vehicle dimensions used in the automobile industry. The author describes design tools used in the industry for occupant packaging, driver vision, and applications of other psychophysical methods. He covers important driver information processing concepts and models and driver error categories to understand key considerations and principles used in designing controls, displays, and their usages, including current issues related to driver workload and driver distractions.
The author has included only the topics and materials that he found to be useful in designing car and truck products and concentrated on the ergonomic issues generally discussed in the automotive design studios and product development teams. He distills the information needed to be a member of an automotive product development team and create an ergonomically superior vehicle.
Preface
Website Materials
Acknowledgments
Author
Part I : Ergonomics Concepts, Issues and Methods in Vehicle Design
Chapter 1 : Introduction to Automotive Ergonomics Chapter 2 : Engineering Anthropometry and Biomechanics Chapter 3 : Occupant Packaging Chapter 4 : Driver Information Acquisition and Processing Chapter 5 : Controls, Displays and Interior Layout. Chapter 6 : Field of Views From Automotive Vehicles Chapter 7 : Automotive Lighting Chapter 8 : Entry and Exit From Automotive Vehicles Chapter 9 : Automotive Exterior Interfaces: Service and Loading/Unloading Tasks Chapter 10 : Automotive Craftmanship Chapter 11 : Role of Ergonomics Engineers in the Automotive Design Process
Part II : Advanced Topics, Measurements, Modeling and Research
Chapter 12 : Modeling Driver Vision Chapter 13 : Driver Performance Measurement Chapter 14 : Driver Workload Measurement Chapter 15 : Vehicle Evaluation Methods Chapter 16 : Special Driver and User Populations Chapter 17 : Future Research and New Technology Issues