ABSTRACT
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. Ergonomists have long been interested and actively engaged in the design of human-computer interfaces. This interest has produced a considerable volume of academic papers, but the impact on the designers of human-computer interfaces for the “real world” has been less than might be hoped. Ergonomists should be able to make their experience and background knowledge more widely available and in more attractive and compelling formats. The late Steven Pheasant’s justly renowned “Bodyspace” (Pheasant 1986/98) suggests a complementary volume on “Mindspace”. Finally, “Bodyspace” concludes with tables of estimates for body dimensions standardised and interpolated by Steven from the best available data.
