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Thursday 17 May 2018

Anthropometrics, Ergonomics and Standard Distribution Curve

Anthropometrics
Definition - anthropometry, especially as it relates to the design of furniture and machinery.

 


Ergonomics

Definition - the study of people's efficiency in their working environment.
Standard distribution curve 

There are many cases where the data tends to be around a central value with no bias left or right, and it gets close to a "Normal Distribution" like this:
bell curve
A Normal Distribution
The "Bell Curve" is a Normal Distribution. 
And the yellow histogram shows some data that 
follows it closely, but not perfectly (which is usual).


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