INNOVATION: Spring 2015

The Hand

Guest Editor: Bryce Rutter, PhD, IDSA

 

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The Spring 2015 INNOVATION explores the hand. Over 95% of all the products we interface with daily involve the use of our hands in some way…  We use our anatomic tools to pull, twist, grip, pinch, move, steer, hold, squeeze, turn, lift, scratch, slide, tighten, bend, tap, and open, among other things. But how do we know when to use two, three, four or five fingers?  How do sense and control our hands and fingers to type an email or suture small vessels when the brain needs to control numerous floating joints affording multiple degrees of freedom?  How do we sense textures, surfaces and materials?  How do our hands age and how does this impact our ability to perform day-to-day tasks?  This special issue of INNOVATION delves into all things related to designing products that are seamless extensions of our hands and mind.

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Here is the Table of Contents for the Spring 2015 issue, guest edited by Bryce Rutter, PhD, IDSA of Metaphase Design, that focuses on the Hand. Articles highlighted in red are available to anyone as PDFs.

 

THE HAND

Welcome to the Hand by Dr. Bryce Rutter, IDSA

The Human Hand by Bryce Rutter, PhD, IDSA

A Hand Is Worth a Thousand Words by Paul Earle

How Your Hands Don’t Work by Dan Formosa, PhD

The Development of Hand Grasping Behavior Mary J. Carlton, PhD and Les G. Carlton, PhD

The Aging Hand Needs a Hand by David Cowan

Attacking Arthritis: Human Performance-Based Consumer Product Evaluations to Support Accessible Design by Brad Fain, PhD

What Separates Us: Bridging the Gap Between Researchers and Practitioners by Keith S. Karn, PhD

Talk, Listen, Test, Repeat: Putting the User First by Laura Joss, PhD

Design Principles for Handheld Packaging by Peter Clarke, IDSA

Aging Hands & Minds:  Designing Hearing Aids by Eunji Park and Stephanie Morgan

Driven by User Comfort: Surgical Tool Design by Alan Mudd

Do You Actually Use Your Hands to Shovel Snow? by Stephen B. Wilcox, PhD, FIDSA

Get a [Comfortable] Grip!: Human Factors Considerations When Designing Handheld Medical Devices by Michael Wiklund

 

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IDSA HQ by Daniel Martinage, CAE

From the Editor by Mark Dziersk, FIDSA

Book Review by Leigh Wasson

Showcase

Design Defined by Gina Signorella

Letter to the Editor    

Beautility by Tucker Viemeister, FIDSA          

A Look Back by Carroll Gantz, FIDSA           

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