Question

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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Data

TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3Total
Berkeley AGeorgia Tech100010
Chicago AIndiana1001020
Chicago CMinnesota B100010
Chicago DMcGill100010
Claremont CollegesToronto B100010
Columbia BArizona State100010
Cornell BBerkeley B1001020
FloridaYale B1001020
IllinoisMichigan1001020
Johns HopkinsNorthwestern100010
MarylandIowa State0000
Minnesota AChicago B100010
NYUBrown100010
North Carolina BSouth Carolina1001020
OttawaDuke1001020
PurdueNorth Carolina A1001020
RutgersPenn100010
StanfordWUSTL A1001020
TexasCornell A100010
Truman StateKentucky100010
VanderbiltHarvard100010
VirginiaWUSTL B100010
WaterlooColumbia A100010
Yale AToronto A001010

Summary

TournamentEditionExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2024 ACF Nationals04/21/2024Y2412.9292%38%0%