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Content

User Modelling (Anthropometrics)

What is User Modelling?

User modelling is a collection of methods used to help understand the implications of design on the operator. User modelling utilises software programmes based on anthropometric databases to generate digital humans in a three-dimensional environment.

User modelling impacts the design of products and workplaces by determining what humans of different sizes can see, reach or lift. The digital human models can be represented at varying levels of detail enabling the designer to articulate body parts within ranges of motion to determine whether the intended design is suitable.

What should User Modelling produce?

User modelling should produce a detailed understanding of the suitability of a design with regard to what users can see, reach or lift in the proposed design environment.

What topics impact User Modelling?

The following topics impact user Modelling:

• User characteristics data/Anthropometric data
• HMI Interface Design
• Workplace/workspace design
• Environment dimensions
• Human dimensions.

Does User Modelling impact any other processes?

The following topics are impacted by user modelling:

• Integrated Test, Evaluation and Acceptance Plan (ITEAP)
• Verification and Validation
• Operability Trials
• Modelling and Simulation (M&S).

Further Information can be found in the HFI Process booklet [PDF], People in Systems handbook [PDF], Def Stan 00-250 [PDF] and the Human Factors Intranet site.

Change History

Change History

1 March 2010

Further Information amended to include a link to People in Systems handbook.

1 December 2009

Further Information added.

1 March 2009

Updated to include links to other HFI content.