ABSTRACT
Trainee industrial designers, at an undergraduate level, need a basic working knowledge of ergonomics if their design work is going to be effective. The authors’ experience, as lecturers in industrial design, is that students arriving on undergraduate courses have a widely variable understanding of ergonomics. In order to be able to plan the most effective teaching and learning experiences for these students, it is necessary to learn as much as is possible about the range of ergonomics learning students bring with them.
