Humanscale is a set of ready references (3 volumes, each furnished with 3 two-sided pictorial selectors with rotary dials and appropriate accompanying manuals) for use by designers in many fields. Engineers, architects, industrial designers, interior designers, furniture designers and craftsmen will find the concentrated information on human factors basic and easy to use for successful design.
Humanscale is dedicated to understanding people—their physical
attributes, abilities, and limitations. It incorporates an extensive
amount of human engineering data compiled and organized by Henry
Dreyfuss Associates over a period of more than 35 years. Much time was
consumed sifting through piles of books, pamphlets and clippings. For
convenience, dimensioned charts of human figures were made and
surrounded by factual data which showed body relationships not readily
perceived through numbers alone. When research led to the fields of
anthropology, biomechanics, psychology, sociology, physiology,
orthopedics, geriatrics, pediatrics and others a decision was made to
introduce rotating analog wheels full of data. Now a single face of
graphics can easily show 20,000 bits of information.
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