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From the very start, ergonomics has focused primarily on the workplace: the place where effort is expended and where danger lurks. Yet it did not take long to realise that the problems found in the everyday living environment are not so very different from those of the working environment and that the tools devised for the workplace could also be applied to good effect to everyday life.
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Bandini Buti, L. (2019). The Built Environment. In: Ask the Right Question. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96346-4_7
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