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B018776 - ERGONOMICS
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Course Content
Suggested readings
Learning Objectives
Type of Assessment
Course program
Academic Year 2014-15
Course year
Second year - Second Semester
Belonging Department
Architecture (DIDA)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
ICAR/13 - DESIGN
Credits
12
Teaching Hours
96
Teaching Term
02/03/2015 ⇒ 30/04/2016
Attendance required
No
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Lectureship
- Part A TOSI FRANCESCA
- Part B TOSI FRANCESCA
Teaching Language - Part A
italian
Course Content - Part A
The course aims to provide a basic knowledge about contents and tools of theoretical and applied ergonomics, analyzing, in particular, the relationship between ergonomics and design.
Subject of the course are basic knowledge of ergonomics, applied to the evaluation and design of industrial products, and a concept based on principles of ergonics, design in design and sustainability.
Subject of the course are basic knowledge of ergonomics, applied to the evaluation and design of industrial products, and a concept based on principles of ergonics, design in design and sustainability.
Suggested readings - Part A (Search our library's catalogue)
Tosi F., Ergonomia e progetto, Franco Angeli, Milano 2006
Pauli G., Blue Economy, Edizioni Ambiente 2010
Bandini Buti L., Ergonomia olistica, Franco Angeli, Milano 2008
Gussoni M., Parlangeli O., Tosi F., Ergonomia e progetto della qualità sensoriale, Franco Angeli, Milano 2008
Norman D.A., La caffettiera del masochista, Giunti, Firenze 1988
Norman D.A., Emotional Design, Apogeo, Milano, 2004
Tosi F., Ergonomia, progetto, prodotto, Franco Angeli, Milano 2005
Pauli G., Blue Economy, Edizioni Ambiente 2010
Bandini Buti L., Ergonomia olistica, Franco Angeli, Milano 2008
Gussoni M., Parlangeli O., Tosi F., Ergonomia e progetto della qualità sensoriale, Franco Angeli, Milano 2008
Norman D.A., La caffettiera del masochista, Giunti, Firenze 1988
Norman D.A., Emotional Design, Apogeo, Milano, 2004
Tosi F., Ergonomia, progetto, prodotto, Franco Angeli, Milano 2005
Learning Objectives - Part A
Objective of the course is to develop a design experience based on the basic content of Ergonomics in Design.
Teaching activities are structured in a theoretical part, aims to provide the theoretical and methodological basis of its ergonomics, its main components of the Human Factors (study of the human factor), and the User Centred Design (project centered on 'user), and in laboratory activities, aimed to testing the knowledge acquired.
The educational activities will be developed in a strictly integrated, and will be divided into lectures, seminars and design exercises.
The attendance is required
Teaching activities are structured in a theoretical part, aims to provide the theoretical and methodological basis of its ergonomics, its main components of the Human Factors (study of the human factor), and the User Centred Design (project centered on 'user), and in laboratory activities, aimed to testing the knowledge acquired.
The educational activities will be developed in a strictly integrated, and will be divided into lectures, seminars and design exercises.
The attendance is required
Type of Assessment - Part A
are provided:
• Two intermediate tests aimed at verifying the content of the theoretical and methodological issues dealt with in the lectures;
• elaborate design exercises during the course, which will be delivered in the date indicated in the lectures.
• final project presentation
• Two intermediate tests aimed at verifying the content of the theoretical and methodological issues dealt with in the lectures;
• elaborate design exercises during the course, which will be delivered in the date indicated in the lectures.
• final project presentation
Course program - Part A
Subject of the course are ergonomic principles and evaluation methods used in design fields and, finally, the role of knowledge and methodological tools of ergonomics in the design process of industrial products.
The product will be analyzed from the standpoint of the individual-user, taking into consideration the ways in which people come into relationship with the products within the different "contexts of use" (ie the physical, social and organizational) in which these products are used.
Course topics will include:
-The User-Centred Design (UCD) approach, its basic principles and its policy of intervention in the design field, with particular reference to the main methods of assessing the usability and safety of use and their applications in process design and manufacture of industrial products.
- Knowledge about the "human factor", ie the set of knowledge about human characteristics and capabilities, which allow you to set and develop the project starting from the basic needs of the individual. Among these will be addressed in particular the knowledge related to anthropometric and biomechanical aspects of physical and sensory and perceptual aspects.
- The theoretical contents and Application of Ergonomics, and in particular the User-Centered Design, will be deepened by exposure and discussion of case design examples.
The course aims to stimulate critical and constructive engagement through exercises and inspections of case studies.
The main topics covered are:
• The contents of Ergonomics for Design;
• The approach and principles of 'User-Centered Design;
• The Task analysis (task analysis);
• The components of user-product: the physical and anthropometric and biomechanical aspects;
• The components of user-product: aspects and psycho-sensory perception;
• The reading of the user-product relationship, through the analysis of its evolution over time and its possible evolutionary lineages, in some types of everyday products.
The laboratory is aimed at testing the knowledge acquired in the classroom.
The workshop activities will be aimed at trying cases of specific design, the methodological approach and the right Ergonomics User Centred Design and development of design experience aimed at product innovation by understanding and creative elaboration of possible areas of intervention, in the field of industrial product.
The aim of the workshop is to develop a design concept that can provide all the technical and formal development of the final design: morphological choices, sizing, materials and components.
The concept will be developed from an evaluation phase of the usage context ipotezzibale, by applying their methods of investigation User-Centred Design approach.
The product will be analyzed from the standpoint of the individual-user, taking into consideration the ways in which people come into relationship with the products within the different "contexts of use" (ie the physical, social and organizational) in which these products are used.
Course topics will include:
-The User-Centred Design (UCD) approach, its basic principles and its policy of intervention in the design field, with particular reference to the main methods of assessing the usability and safety of use and their applications in process design and manufacture of industrial products.
- Knowledge about the "human factor", ie the set of knowledge about human characteristics and capabilities, which allow you to set and develop the project starting from the basic needs of the individual. Among these will be addressed in particular the knowledge related to anthropometric and biomechanical aspects of physical and sensory and perceptual aspects.
- The theoretical contents and Application of Ergonomics, and in particular the User-Centered Design, will be deepened by exposure and discussion of case design examples.
The course aims to stimulate critical and constructive engagement through exercises and inspections of case studies.
The main topics covered are:
• The contents of Ergonomics for Design;
• The approach and principles of 'User-Centered Design;
• The Task analysis (task analysis);
• The components of user-product: the physical and anthropometric and biomechanical aspects;
• The components of user-product: aspects and psycho-sensory perception;
• The reading of the user-product relationship, through the analysis of its evolution over time and its possible evolutionary lineages, in some types of everyday products.
The laboratory is aimed at testing the knowledge acquired in the classroom.
The workshop activities will be aimed at trying cases of specific design, the methodological approach and the right Ergonomics User Centred Design and development of design experience aimed at product innovation by understanding and creative elaboration of possible areas of intervention, in the field of industrial product.
The aim of the workshop is to develop a design concept that can provide all the technical and formal development of the final design: morphological choices, sizing, materials and components.
The concept will be developed from an evaluation phase of the usage context ipotezzibale, by applying their methods of investigation User-Centred Design approach.