The headlong development of computer-based systems has far outstripped the human resources necessary to guarantee the oversight of human-Computer Interfaces (HCI) by professionally qualified ergonomists. It is very necessary to put relevant information into the hands of system designers before costly and irretrievable errors are made. Most ergonomics literature is aimed at the scientific community, devoting most of its content to highly technical descriptions of experimental methods, subject pools, and statistical analyses. If the information is to reach the target audience, it must be made palatable, without oversimplification or condescension. The late Stephen Pheasant's "Bodyspace" provides an example of what can be done.
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