Reddit reviews The Measure of Man and Woman: Human Factors in Design

Dreyfuss' Measure Of Man & Woman is the standard anthropometrics book in industrial design; it should give you all the specs you need for manual tools & controllers: https://www.amazon.com/Measure-Man-Woman-Factors-Design/dp/0471099554

That's the only book I really use, but it also might be useful to poke around on some physical therapy sites to get an idea of common hand injuries & the general anatomy, if you think the controller could cause any risk of a repetitive strain injury. IME physical therapists publish a ton of stuff online & generally have a lot of solid practical knowledge of what issues are most common.

Outside of that, we rely a lot on just model making & testing. Get a couple people with really big hands (usually ~95th men's percentile) & a couple with really small hands (usually ~5th P women's), make a stack of vaguely plausible prototypes, and have them tell you what works for them. I honestly sometimes start these by just squishing playdough around until it feels like it fits.

This is a pretty good one, as is this

The Measure of Man and Women is a very good reference, though the data may be outdated now. Link

H-Point is very good as well, although it focuses on cars and transportation Link

I'd recommend Donald Normans "The Design of Everyday Things" too, as it goes into the psychology of products and how we use them. Not ergonomics specifically, but very useful to learn about. Link

This is Bill Hammock's channel but it's missing a lot of videos. He had a bunch when he worked in some kind of office.

Someone else uploaded a mirror of it. He has some humor in the older ones.

I've looked for the book he references as well--The Measure of Man: Human Factors in Design by Henry Dreyfuss--it's expensive. There is a revised edition if you're actually curious about the measurements.

This might be a good resource.

The Measure of Man and Woman

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I've come across a few human factors book with a good set of data. If I remember correctly this represents data analysed and collected by US army in the 70s and the data is heavily biased towards Caucasian bodies.

I would like to avoid OCR and parsing it. If anyone knows any openly available dataset it would be really helpful.