Ergonomics Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

TwelveSouth defies gravity with HiRise for iMac and Cinema Display

by Michael Rose (Sep 26th, 2012)

Pop quiz: What's holding up your iMac? As handsome as the metal foot design may be, many deskbound Mac mavens eventually find that the fixed-height screen position isn't quite high enough for comfortable ergonomics. In my experience, the same goes for the Cinema Display -- up until yesterday, ...

Landscape or portrait? It's all about software ergonomics

by Michael Grothaus (Oct 2nd, 2010)

When we think about computer ergonomics, we usually look at how our monitor is positioned (is it an appropriate distance from our eyes?), where our keyboard is laid out (in a keyboard tray or on our desktop?), and if our chair height lets us keep our knees at a 90 degree angle. In other words, ...

Case Study: Standing at your Mac to save your back

by TJ Luoma (May 9th, 2010)

BusinessWeek is worried that Your Office Chair Is Killing You. "Short of sitting on a spike, you can't do much worse than a standard office chair," says Galen Cranz, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley. This article caught my eye because just about a month ago, I bought this ...

Relax, the iPad isn't going to kill the iPhone

by Erica Sadun (Feb 1st, 2010)

Regardless of what some people may worry about, the iPad is not going to kill the iPhone. Why's that? To keep the answer really, really simple, it's because the iPad does not fit in people's pockets. Can the answer get any simpler than that? I'm on record as not being a huge fan of the iPhone as ...

Nothing was stirring, not even these mice

by Mike Schramm (Dec 25th, 2009)

Wired's Gadget Lab points to this great Flickr gallery by raneko of Apple mice throughout the years, from the blocky one-button behemoths of years past up to the smooth and slick Mighty and Magic mice of today. Laid all in a row like that, it's interesting to see just how much care went into the ...

Macworld on healthy computing

by Dan Lurie (Oct 11th, 2006)

Most people know that the right ergonomic setup is important to maintain not only good productivity but good health. Far too many otherwise healthy and intelligent people, including Mac pundit and New York Times columnist David Pogue, succumb to painful, sometimes even debilitating, RSI or back pain ...