HUMAN FACTORS AND EXISTENTIAL PHENOMENOLOGY
IMAGES AND MOVIES
ETIENNE-JULES MAREY AND THE MECHANICS OF THE BODY
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E.J. Marey, Geometric Chronophotograph of the man in the black suit, 1883
Man in the black suit with striping and points for chronophotography, 1883
E.J. Marey, Chronophotographs from "The Human Body in Action," Scientific American, 1914
Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase, oil on canvas (1912)
Eliot Eliofson, Duchamp descending a staircase, photograph from Life Magazine (1952)
TIME AND MOTION STUDIES
In the early 1900s, Frank and Lillian Gilbreth used time-motion studies to analyze a golfer's swing, and
to analyze a worker assembling parts.
The Kitchen Practical, a model kitchen Lillian Gilbreth designed to save the modern homemaker time and wasted motion (1929)
HUMAN FACTORS
R. Dale Huchingson, New Horizons for Human Factors in Design (McGraw-Hill series in industrial engineering and management science), 1981
CUP-STACKING
Video of Emily Fox's World Record Cup Stacking (Windows Media)