Ergonomics Applied to the Design of Vehicles for Disabled
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In this work the essential ergonomic aspects to the project of product to wheelchairs users will be approached, always looking for comfort, safety and costs. In the specific case of an ergonomic project of a vehicle for disabled, the following factors should be taken into account: user, vehicle and environment. It is extremely difficult to separate these factors, due to they are strongly coupled and dependent. For this reason, in this work, the physical (especially antropometric) and physiologic characteristics of the user, the comfort of the seat and types of the user's interface will be approached. A review about the main important problems and solutions in this area is showed.
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