The quality of a design in inherent on tis effectiveness to meet the desired design specifications, and either designers have an obligation to enhance the quality of their designs by paying a closer attention to the purposes in which the material is meant for. This is what has been coined under the concept of specification, which generally refers to the determination of what the product is meant to do and the intended quality of the product, as well as its ability to meet the purpose it was meant to serve. These concepts are inclined on the study of ergonomics and anthropometrics (Olds, and Kevin 5). Moreover, ergonomics refers to a study of the relationships that people have with the properties in which they use. The date established form ergonomics is purely used to facilitate the design of products that meet their intended purposes, based on the designated use. Other design parameters entailed in the determination of the ergonomics include an establishment of the force in which person will apply on the object when he or sits on it, and how to ensure that such forces do not interfere with the normal functionality of the product. On the other hand, Anthropometrics refers to the study of sizes of individuals in correspondence to the products designed for use (Panero, and Zelnik 35). Thus, different sizes of products are suited for a clustered measure of individual sizes. However, the term ergonomics came into the public parlance in the year 1949, and it’s believed to have been introduced by K.F.H Murrell, but was later adopted in 1950 in Greek. This concept was also coined independently in other regions including Poland, and other regions in Europe.
There are different dimensional measures for the heights across male and female genders. Thus, anthropometric measures on this gender line are often executed along gender lines on a percentile basis. In this accord, the 5th percentile female takes a correspondence to a 95th percentile male. The 5th % is often taken as the least design dimension in female regardless of the human factor involved, while 95th% is the largest design measure for male (Alexander 99). In anthropometric design measures, one should take a larger design measure with a range from 1st% female to the 99th% male. This is wide range of class showing distribution in the height of male and females in correspondence with intervals like 50th %. This summary thus illustrates the distribution of male and females heights under anthropometric measures.
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