Comfort in using hand tools

Theory, design and evaluation

Doctoral thesis (2007)

Contributors

P. Vink (promotor)
M.P. de Looze (promotor)
Faculty
Industrial Design Engineering (IDE) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2007 L.F.M. Kuijt-Evers
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Published Date

19-01-2007

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Faculty

Industrial Design Engineering

Abstract

Everyone uses hand tools in their daily life, like knife and fork. Moreover, many people use hand tools in their profession as well as during leisure time. It is important that they can work with hand tools that provide comfort. Until now, the avoidance of discomfort was emphasized during the design process of hand tools, like screwdrivers, hand saws and paint brushes. In the near future, the focus will shift towards providing comfort. However, some questions need to be answered to make this shift, like: What does the end-user mean with comfort in using hand tools? How can we translate this into hand tool design and the design proces? How can we evaluate hand tools on comfort? These questions are answered in the current thesis.