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Registration

By Chris Adams, About.com

Definition: In terms of product design and ergonomics, registration occurs when the human amd machine interface as planned. Anthropometrics allows a design to register a demographic group according to the body measurements that are needed for that human-machine interface.
Examples: When he sat in the driver's seat his hands registered on the steering wheel so perfectly that he thought he was in the Indy 500.

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