ISO 9241-410:2008规定了基于人机工程学因素的交互式系统物理输入设备设计标准，包括键盘、鼠标、圆盘、操纵杆、轨迹球、轨迹板、平板电脑和覆盖物、触摸屏、样式和光笔，以及语音和手势控制设备。它给出了这些设备的设计指南，考虑了用户的能力和限制，并规定了物理输入设备的通用设计标准，以及每种类型设备的具体标准。产品设计的要求要么是基于上下文无关的考虑，要么是基于指定的预期用途设计标准来确定；在适用的情况下，此类特定标准通常被细分为面向任务的类别。 ISO 9241-410:2008没有规定适用于设备的类别，因为根据可用性的概念，产品没有固有的可用性。 选择设备的特定属性所属的类别取决于产品的设计。 ISO 9241-410:2008预计将被包括产品设计师和测试机构在内的物理输入设备制造商用于确定设备在其预期使用环境（用户群体、任务、软件或环境等）下的设计特征。ISO 9241-410:2007用户为描述其产品特性而生成的数据可用于根据与特定用户群体的任务相关的任务原语，选择适合实际使用环境的设备，并实现给定系统所需的效率和有效性水平。

ISO 9241-410:2008 specifies criteria based on ergonomics factors for the design of physical input devices for interactive systems including keyboards, mice, pucks, joysticks, trackballs, trackpads, tablets and overlays, touch？sensitive screens, styli and light pens, and voice- and gesture？controlled devices. It gives guidance on the design of these devices, taking into consideration the capabilities and limitations of users, and specifies generic design criteria for physical input devices, as well as specific criteria for each type of device. Requirements for the design of products are given either as a result of context-free considerations, or else can be determined based on the specified design criteria for the intended use; such specified criteria generally having been subdivided into task？oriented categories, wherever applicable. ISO 9241-410:2008 does not specify the categories that are appropriate for devices as, according to the concept of usability, a product has no inherent usability. Selecting the category to which a certain property of a device belongs is subject to the design of a product. ISO 9241-410:2008 is expected to be used by the manufacturers of physical input devices, including product designers and test organizations, in determining the design characteristics of a device for its intended context of use (user population, task, software or environment, etc.). The data generated by the users of ISO 9241-410:2007 for the description of the properties of their products can be applied in the selection of a device adequate for the actual context of use on the basis of the task primitives relevant for the task of the specific user population, and for achieving the required level of efficiency and effectiveness for a given system.