Victor Papanek’s book Design for the Real World presents a chair inspired by Carlo Mollino to criticize this field’s attempts to quantify human ecology. For 10 points each:
[10e] Give this term for a “science of work” that studies how human factors influence interactions with engineered systems. Designs known by this term maximize safety and comfort.
ANSWER: ergonomics [accept ergonomic design; accept physical ergonomics]
[10h] This industrial designer outlined human dimensional constraints in the early ergonomic text The Measure of Man. This author of Designing for People created Bell’s black Model 500 telephone.
ANSWER: Henry Dreyfuss [accept Henry Dreyfuss Associates]
[10m] A yellow data selector rates this variable in Henry Dreyfuss Associates’ ergonomics manual Humanscale. Rice bucket digs can increase this variable, which physical therapists quantify with dynamometers during crushing.
ANSWER: grip strength [or handgrip strength or maximum grip strength or grip force; accept hands, fingers, digits, or handshake in place of “grip”; prompt on physical strength or maximum effort; prompt on maximum force or kilogram-force or F by asking “measured to estimate what variable human trait?”]
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