ABSTRACT
For some years now, ergonomic hand tool design has stimulated renewed interest among users, manufacturers and researchers. For generations, since the Industrial Revolution at the start of the 19th century, emphasis has been placed on hand tool function in concern for performance and within a tool standardization context. Thus, the tool was required, above all, to fulfill its intended function and suit the greatest number of people at the lowest cost. The same tool was therefore designed for use by all users. In recent years, however, this situation has evolved and fresh aims in relation to comfort and minimum demand on user functional capacities have been introduced.
