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What price ergonomics?

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Ergonomists have a say in the design of almost everything in the modern world, but there is little evidence that their methods actually work. Here is an evaluation of those methods and of the worth of ergonomics in design.

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    Neville A. Stanton & Mark S. Young

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Stanton, N., Young, M. What price ergonomics?. Nature 399, 197–198 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/20298

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