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oe HUMAN HUMAN DIMENSION/ PS PWT Tele) atl (ery Pool ede teld Seas ty Ts el ANTHROPOMETRIC TABLES BOVdS YOMSLNI 2 INTERIOR SPACE/BASIC DESIGN REFERENCE STANDARDS HUMAN DIMENSION & INTERIOR SPACE A SOURCE BOOK DESIGN REFERENCE STANDARDS. BY JULIUS PANERO, AIA, ASIO AND MARTIN ZELNIK, AIA, ASID WHITNEY LIBRARY OF DESIGN an imprint of Watson-Guptill Publicaions/New York DEDICATION To that smail group of anthropologists specializing inthe feld of en- Gineering anthropemetry, without whose expertise, vision, and Sensitivity tothe importance of human dimension and is relationship tothe desion process this book certainly could not have been writen. ce Unies Sate Cas by Wine Lay es ry Sng ann Panton Oa Augean Naan penny oe Siac torsion songe rd tet apanne CONTENTS FOREWORD, 8 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, 10 PREFACE, 12 INTRODUCTION, 15 A. HUMAN DIMENSION/ ANTHROPOMETRICS, 24 1. ANTHROPOMETRIC THEORY, 23 1.1 ANTHROPOMETRY, 23 4.2SOURCES OF DATA, 26 1.3 TYPE OF DATA, 27 1.4 PRESENTATION OF DATA, 31 1.5 PERCENTILES, 34 1.8 VARIABILITY AND RELIABILITY, 98 2. ANTHROPOMETRIC DATAJAPPLICATION, 37 2.1 APPROPRIATENESS, 37 2.2 "AVERAGE MAN" FALLACY, 37 2.3 REACH, CLEARANCE, AND ADJUSTABILITY, 38 2.4 THE HIDDEN DIMENSIONS, 38 2.5 PEOPLE IN MOTION, 40 2.6 RANGE OF JOINT MOTION, 43 27 RESTRAINTS, 45 3, ELDERLY AND PHYSICALLY DISABLED PEOPLE, 47 3.1 ELDERLY PEOPLE, 47 3.2PHYSICALLY DISABLED PEOPLE, 50 3.3 CHAIREOUND PEOPLE. 50 34 AMBULANT DISABLED PEOPLE, 5

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