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Aug 4, 2022 · Robert H. McKim, a professor emeritus of mechanical engineering, creator of a design approach he called “visual thinking,” and an early and influential member of Stanford’s Product Design Program in the late 1950s, died July 17 at his home in Santa Cruz, California. He was 95 years old.
Robert Horton McKim, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering and the driving force behind Stanford’s product design program for 30 years, died on July 17. He was 95.
Robert McKim (1877 – June 4, 1927) was an American actor of the silent film era and a performer in vaudeville. He appeared in nearly 100 films between 1915 and 1927. He played the arch villain opposite Douglas Fairbanks 's Zorro in The Mark of Zorro in 1920.
- A Theory of Relaxed Attention
- A Theory of Attention
- A Theory of Memory
- A Theory of Representation Systems
In considerable depth, McKim especially elaborates how muscle tonus (relaxation) impacts emotions, attention processes and productive versus non-productive information processing. McKim holds that: A13) Relaxed attention is most favourable for creative, productive thinking. In his overarching theory of creativity, McKim holds that it is important t...
The ability of people to persist with on-task attention is considered a prerequisite by McKim for productive thinking (cf. Sect. 3.2). Here as much as in other cases, he endeavours to provide (neuro-)psychological accounts of cognitive processing in general, and creative thinking in particular. Today, the bio-psychological basis of creativity is a ...
Next to his theory of attention, McKim also spells out a theory of memory. Once again, he provides an embodied cognition account. According to this view, what we remember is a matter of our whole body. In particular, muscle tonus and relaxation play a key role in McKim’s memory conception. The topic of memory is important indeed in the context of c...
Related to McKim’s theories of attention and memory is also his account of representation systems. Once again, he explores the role of different sensory-modalities and why it is important for creative thinkers to be versatile in accessing them all. As in other fields, McKim builds on works of his predecessor John Arnold, where he adds both developm...
- Julia P. A. von Thienen, William J. Clancey, Christoph Meinel
- 2021
We’re saddened by the loss of Bob McKim, a seminal figure in the history of human-centered design. Born in 1926, Bob was professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University from 1958-1988 and Rolf’s predecessor as director of the Product Design Program for over 20 years, beginning in the early 1960s.
Robert McKim. Actor: All the Brothers Were Valiant. Married to actresses Dorcas Matthews and Ottie Ardine, George got his start at 14 years of age, as a singing and dancing waiter in Chicago. McKim began a long career on the stage with the Alcazar stock company in San Francisco.
Robert H. McKim, born September 24 in 1926, moved to the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn to pursue Industrial Design after having earned a Mechanical Engineering degree at Stanford University. He came to work for Henry Dreyfuss in Manhattan as an industrial designer. Here, “human factors” were a prominently invoked concept. At the same time ...
