Quotes About Ergonomics

I have my whole office set-up at waist level; I don't sit at all during the day. Sitting, to me, is the devil.

For 20 years I've been screaming at these guitar companies, saying, 'It's abnormal to put your arm around an acoustic guitar that is about 6 to 8 inches deep.' Your arm reaches over, and you start to strum, and then all of a sudden you get a charley horse in your back. The older you get, the greater the charley horse.

If more designers had bad backs, we would have more good chairs.

In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good

For me, shoe-wise, platforms give me the same height that I need, but they're not as taxing on my feet.

Most cars are comfortable until you are about 6'3' or 4.

Apple excels at taking existing concepts - computers, MP3 players, conceit - and carefully streamlining them into glistening ergonomic chunks of concentrated aspiration.

When I am reading for research and making notes, I use a cleverly designed curved lap-desk, and I sit up dutifully, mindful of ergonomics and suchlike concepts. When reading for pleasure, I take advantage of the 'recline' in recliner.

For us tall people, the whole key is that your hips and your knees should form a right angle when you sit down. That's where backs and hips get to be problems for big guys.

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We've spent a lot of time on ergonomics. That was something we found to be really important as we iterated on the headset, from developer kits to Crescent Bay to the Rift.

We think the right categorization for digital devices is something you hold in your hand, a mobile-type product, and something you sit two feet away from.

The old Mauser was too long, too big, and too heavy for a child. A child's small arm could not reach freely for the trigger, and he had difficulty taking aim. Modern design has solved these problems, eliminated the inconveniences. The dimensions of weapons are now perfectly suited to a boy's physique, so much so that in the hands of tall, massive men, the new guns appear somewhat comical and childish.

being a miner he sat on his heels more comfortably than on a chair

sitting at a computer for long

one learns that his bed was so short because most people back then slept sitting up;

I've experienced firsthand the disconnect between furniture, their environments, and the way people work.

Ergonomists are not physicians - they are engineers - and their medical theories are controversial. Some of the world's leading medical researchers deny that repetitive motion causes injury.

I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.

Almost any seat was comfortable at one-sixth of a gravity.

Comfort rules. You want to be able to sit in a good chair comfortably for a few hours and be able to talk and enjoy a glass of wine. There's nothing worse than sitting in an uncomfortable chair.

Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk.

If ergonomists have their way, future products won't be built for some hypothetical average person but will conform to the biomechanical needs of whatever particular human body happens to come into contact with them.

We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn't worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often 'crash' when we tried to use them.