Human factors in virtual design of vehicular working machines
Human factors are important for achieving safe, usable and efficient products and therefore have to be integrated into the design process. Virtual testing and prototyping open new possibilities for accounting human factors. Some progress has been made resulting in standard ISO 13407 (1999) and a number of design methods that bring ergonomics, safety and usability to the technical design process. But to take these new design processes they need to be described more specifically and practically to the designers. In our project, we will use one of the previously developed human-centered design method based on standard ISO 13407. For that method we collected safety, ergonomic and usability methods to be used in various design phases, which are described in the standard. Some of these methods are to be used by the human factors professionals, but some of them could also be applied by the designers. The designers will apply these methods only if those are always at hand, very easy to use and provide reliable information. Another challenge is to decide the point in the design process when the methods should be applied. In this project we have divided the design process into several steps depending on the state of the process and on the design tools. This division is made because different methods are only suitable to specific situations. For example, posture analyses can be used in human models in computer simulation, but they may not fit well to virtual environment because of the lack of reality of the haptics and test persons movements. That is why we will use different methods to make the design processes, especially those evolving virtual testing and prototyping, more efficient and human factor oriented. This paper presents intermediate results of an ongoing national project. The objective is to apply existing human factor methods to the new technology (simulation, virtual reality) design processes. We will review and modify few of the methods within the developed human-centered design method. The methods will be verified in test cases of machinery design with the application of virtual reality. As a result, we expect to receive a feedback on methods usability and suitability for the virtual design.
Susanna Aromaa Simo-Pekka Leino Juhani Viitaniemi
VTT Technical Research Centre of FinlandTekniikankatu 1, P.O.Box 1300FI-33101 Tampere, Finland VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Tekniikankatu 1, P.O.Box 1300 FI-33101 Tampere, Finland
国际会议
17th World Congress on Ergonomics(第十七届国际人类工效学大会)
北京
英文
1-5
2009-08-09（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）