Folk Norms and Biomechanics
- 1 October 1963
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
- Vol. 5 (5) , 427-441
- https://doi.org/10.1177/001872086300500502
Abstract
This paper describes some of the folk norms or so-called “rules of thumb” that governed the making of tools and implements up to middle of the nineteenth century. These norms were established on the bases of intuition or through a long process of development by trial and error. In many instances dimensions arrived at on the basis of these norms have agreed with those established as optimal by means of biomechanical analysis.Keywords
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