Human Engineering in Studying Residents and Housing

When studying the housing quality measured by residents' experiences of it, two different research traditions are faced: the humanistic and that of natural sciences. On one hand, housing research studies human beings and on the other hand man-made objects. The context of human engineering is introduced as a framework for the different study approaches of multidisciplinary housing research. The multidisciplinary approach of housing research makes to solve such matters as: how to combine several research paradigms, the selection of parameters and their relationships, the defining the concept of human engineering, that of demand driven housing and other related concepts and methods to be lent to serve the purposes of housing research, trust on end user evaluation, the roles of the expertise and experts in research. The right answers can follow only after the right questions have been made and thus some important questions are raised of the use of human engineering approach in housing research.