Consumer product design projects are described as they have been used at Tufts University so that student teams may practice human factors design in a realistic, verifiable context. Experience over the years with engineering and psychology students supports this educational approach and the realworld observation that most human factors data is of general relevance but limited applicability to the design problems and that human factors engineering is an integrated activity.
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