This course aims at raising students' awareness and increasing their knowledge about how the best possible match between the environment being designed and its diverse users including physically disabled people, the elderly and children can be achieved in order to ensure functional efficiency, ease of use, comfort, health and well-being.
Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to:
1. Describe how the design of a system or an environment that is intended for human use can be based upon the physical characteristics of its human users;
2. Employ the principles and practice of anthropometrics,
3. Identify differences in human anthropometric characteristics and their underlying causes,
4. Apply anthropometry in design in order to ensure a proper “ergofitting” of people to the interior environments in which they live and work;
5. Identify seven principles of universal design to use them for designing the built environment.