Teaching Human Factors through movies

 



Teaching the basic 

House of god


Production pressure 

Charlie Chaplin - Feeding Machine - Modern Times feeding machine.1936
https://youtu.be/6n9ESFJTnHs?t=14 


Good Design 

Buster Keaton (1920) The Scarecrow (scene "one-room house") - 



Bad Design

Sleeper - 


Friendly Machine

9 to 5 -

"Human Error"

Leon the pig farmer - 

Human factors weak points

Indiana Johns - 

Decision under stress

Indiana Johns - 

Communication 

Pearl Harbor -

Control & Alarm

The China Syndrome -


Error types - James Reason

A fall from grace - 


HF engineer self-production movies 

Visual Search - 

The Information Processing Model - 

Multitasking - 




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Disasters Waiting to Happen -