DT GCSE: Research, Ergonomics

Research carried out by using information that other people have already researched and published. For example books or the internet.

• Primary research

• Secondary research

When you carry out the research and collect the data and information for yourself

• Primary research

• Secondary research

Conducting survey or questionnaires

• Primary Research

• Secondary Research

Conducting interviews with your client and/or user

• Primary Research

• Secondary Research

Analysing existing product that might help solving the problem

• Primary Research

• Secondary Research

looking at existing or similar products and comparing them

• Primary research

• Secondary research

finding out which processes you have access to in school

• Primary research

• Secondary research

Anthropometrics is the scientific study of

• making products safe

• making products comfortable

• the measurements and proportions of the human body

• hands

Ergonomics is the study of

• the way end users interact with products, which means designing products in a way which makes them easy to use and safe.

• of human sizes and measurements

When Anthropometrics are applied to a product, it makes the product

• Ergonomic

• Economic

• Aeronomic

• Autonomic