ABSTRACT
The ergonomic goal is to design tasks, jobs, products, environments, and systems so that they are compatible with the needs, abilities, and limitations of people.
Procedures to measure the human body followed throughout the twentieth century the techniques that Martin [1] developed in 1914 [2-4]. The 1978 NASA=Webb sourcebook [5] contains an exhaustive collection of anthropometric data available during the mid-1970s. Since then, numerous publications describing national, ethnic, professional, age-related, and other groupings have appeared in the literature (see, for example, Kroemer's [6] compilation of anthropometric information).
