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- >From: almquist@brahms.udel.edu (Squish)
- >Sender: hlab@milton.u.washington.edu (Human Int. Technology Lab)
- >Organization: *STUCK* at UofD for 3 mo' months
-
- >a VR platform, I've come across an interesting question. What are the
- >human limiting degrees in vision and hearing? What's that mean? What
- >is our total range of vision? 180 degrees? What about an individual
- >_human_ eye? How much overlap is there between the two eyes? How
- >about hearing? Can each ear hear 360 degrees or does the meat get in
- >the way? How much overlap is there between the ears as in the eyes?
-
- For the answers to all these questions and more, check out
- "Humanscale" by Niels Diffrient, Alvin Tilley, and David Harman,
- published by MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
-
- It comes in several sets of books and nifty plastic rotary spinners
- and detailed charts. The sets are available in threes: 1/2/3, 4/5/6,
- and 7/8/9.
-
- 1 Sizes of people
- 2 Seating considerations
- 3 Requirements for handicapped and elderly
-
- 4 Human strength and safety
- 5 Hand and foot controls and displays
- 6 Head and vision, hands and feet
-
- 7 Standing and sitting at work
- 8 Space planning for the individual and public
- 9 Access for maintenance, stairs, light, and color
-
- It's incredibly detailed with all sorts of cool facts, tables, and
- graphs, like "the human body acts as an antenna and has a resonant
- frequency of about 70 megahertz", or a diagram indicating which angles
- of rear illumination (approaching from behind your head, over your
- ear) are likely to cause distracting reflections for people who wear
- eyeglasses.
-
- Steve Strassmann
- MIT Media Lab
- straz@media-lab.media.mit.edu
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-