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From: keith@actrix.gen.nz (Keith Stewart)
Subject: Human Factors or also called Ergonomics
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.091705.2823@actrix.gen.nz>
Summary: Another name and intro
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange, Wellington, New Zealand
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1991 09:17:05 GMT

I have an interest in this discussion being in employment with a
government organisation concerned with Occupational Safety and health
and having a personal interest in whether designers of programme interfaces
ever use the principles that have been derived from psychology and are used
in amny places when designing instruments , control panel etc.

Fundamental is the realisation that human have certain instinctive responses
to stimuli and that any "interface" that requires a response from a person
should (must) take into account these responses.