Reddit mentions: The best industrial ergonomics books

Yep, the Henry Dreyfuss one is excellent.

Body Space is good as well.

I am currently taking a course in Human Factors and Ergonomics in Information and Technology, really enjoying the material. Have you heard of IDEO?

For class we had to read Kim Vicente's book, highly recommend it.

You are on an interesting pathway. Can I help?

http://www.amazon.com/Field-Guide-Understanding-Human-ebook/dp/B00BL0OZ0E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1374854320&sr=8-1&keywords=field+guide+to+human+error

Read that first.

Then read this:

http://www.amazon.com/Drift-into-Failure-ebook/dp/B009KOKXKY/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1374854359&sr=1-1&keywords=drift+failure

Let me know what you think.

The Human Factor by Vicente is really good and has entertaining stories. It deals with everything from physical usability to computer screens. I haven't read "Don't Make Me Think", so I can't compare the two, but I highly recommend this one!

Warning: it may make you hate your stove for being poorly designed ;)

Design is certainly important in something like a flight cockpit because the the confusion of one button from another can lead to disaster and thus require tremendous user testing as described in The Human Factor but this is not the same for the interface of the phone.

It's more than rectangles, I'm sure you could pay a 12 year old in India to make bounce back in an afternoon. Something like

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list.slideBack()

If you are so convinced of your position why don't you demonstrate this instead of repeatedly resorting to ad hominems to make up for your weak argument.

This is a book for engineers, and other people, but I think more people need to read it as it isn't obviously an engineering book: The Human Factor: Revolutionizing the Way People Live with Technology by Kim Vicente. Vicente writes about how people affect technology and how technology affects people - things that should be obvious and standard, but sadly isn't. Gives a great introduction to socio-technical studies.

>I think the Russians may have this too because of all the "heart attacks" happening with their peeps as well.

Or maybe it's because alcohol contributes to heart disease? Occam's razor, it's stressful as hell out here. lol

It's important to remember this technology was declassified for the Church Committee over forty years ago. Anyway, here's a more recent journal article which gives some insight into current Russian and US information warfare theory as it relates to external manipulation of the nervous system with microwaves, lasers, acoustics, etc:

Strategic Studies Institute at the US Army War College: "The Mind Has No Firewall"

RAND Corporation: Neocortical Warfare? The Acme of Skill

Routledge: Military Neuroscience and the Coming Age of Neurowarfare

>Krishnan describes military applications of neuroscience research and emerging neurotechnology with relevance to the conduct of armed conflict and law enforcement. This work builds upon literature by scholars such as Moreno and Giordano and fills an existing gap, not only in terms of reviewing available and future neurotechnologies and relevant applications, but by discussing how the military pursuit of these technologies fits into the overall strategic context. The first to sketch future neurowarfare by looking at its potentials as well as its inherent limitations, this book’s main theme is how military neuroscience will enhance and possibly transform both classical psychological operations and cyber warfare.

Spoiler: you don't have to kill people as often if you can use "less than lethal" incapacitants that neutralize their will and force them to fuck off. That's the unclassified spin on it, anyway. :-/