Anthropotechnics

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Anthropotechnics ( anthropic , Greek: ἄνθρωπος , means man ) pursues the goal of adapting machines and technical facilities to the properties, possibilities and needs of people so that both work together with the best possible overall result in terms of performance, reliability and economy ( interaction ).

To this end, anthropotechnology deals with the physical and physiological properties as well as the thought processes of humans, which it traces with scientific methods. It is therefore an interdisciplinary field that applies findings from physiology , psychology (especially experimental psychology ), occupational medicine , anthropometry , physics and systems engineering and brings them into new contexts corresponding to the above-mentioned goal.

The main concern of anthropotechnics is the design of the interface between man and machine.

Edgar Rößger is considered to be the founder of anthropotechnics .

literature

  • Charwat, Hans Jürgen: Lexicon of man-machine communication . Oldenbourg, 1994, ISBN 3-486-22618-5 .