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Job Description
Design objects, facilities, and environments to optimize human well-being and overall system performance, applying theory, principles, and data regarding the relationship between humans and respective technology. Investigate and analyze characteristics of human behavior and performance as it relates to the use of technology.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 17-2112.01
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Human Factors Engineers and Ergonomists”.
Also Known As…
- Human Factors Engineers and Ergonomists
- User Experience Team Lead
- Senior Research Associate
- Principal Engineer
- PI/Senior Research Associate
- Managing Cognitive Engineer
- Human Factors Engineer
- Human Factors Advisor, Lead
- Ergonomist
- Consultant in Ergonomics and Safety
- User Interface Designer
- Usability Specialist
- Usability Engineer
- Safety Specialist
- President Ergonomic Consulting
- Interface Designer
- Human Machine Interface Engineer (HMI Engineer)
- Human Factors Specialist
- Human Factors Scientist
- Human Factors Ergonomist
- Ergonomics Engineer
- Ergonomics Consultant
- Ergonomic Specialist
- Engineering Psychologist
- Chief Engineer
Tasks for “Human Factors Scientist”
- Collect data through direct observation of work activities or witnessing the conduct of tests.
- Apply modeling or quantitative analysis to forecast events, such as human decisions or behaviors, the structure or processes of organizations, or the attitudes or actions of human groups.
- Perform statistical analyses, such as social network pattern analysis, network modeling, discrete event simulation, agent-based modeling, statistical natural language processing, computational sociology, mathematical optimization, or systems dynamics.
- Advocate for end users in collaboration with other professionals including engineers, designers, managers, or customers.
- Investigate theoretical or conceptual issues, such as the human design considerations of lunar landers or habitats.
- Provide technical support to clients through activities such as rearranging workplace fixtures to reduce physical hazards or discomfort or modifying task sequences to reduce cycle time.
- Establish system operating or training requirements to ensure optimized human-machine interfaces.
- Develop or implement research methodologies or statistical analysis plans to test and evaluate developmental prototypes used in new products or processes, such as cockpit designs, user workstations, or computerized human models.
- Train users in task techniques or ergonomic principles.
- Integrate human factors requirements into operational hardware.
- Design or evaluate human work systems, using human factors engineering and ergonomic principles to optimize usability, cost, quality, safety, or performance.
- Assess the user-interface or usability characteristics of products.
- Conduct research to evaluate potential solutions related to changes in equipment design, procedures, manpower, personnel, or training.
- Provide human factors technical expertise on topics such as advanced user-interface technology development or the role of human users in automated or autonomous sub-systems in advanced vehicle systems.
- Estimate time or resource requirements for ergonomic or human factors research or development projects.
- Conduct interviews or surveys of users or customers to collect information on topics such as requirements, needs, fatigue, ergonomics, or interfaces.
- Prepare reports or presentations summarizing results or conclusions of human factors engineering or ergonomics activities, such as testing, investigation, or validation.
- Perform functional, task, or anthropometric analysis, using tools such as checklists, surveys, videotaping or force measurement.
- Write, review, or comment on documents, such as proposals, test plans, or procedures.
- Design cognitive aids, such as procedural storyboards or decision support systems.
- Recommend workplace changes to improve health and safety, using knowledge of potentially harmful factors, such as heavy loads or repetitive motions.
- Inspect work sites to identify physical hazards.
- Operate testing equipment, such as heat stress meters, octave band analyzers, motion analysis equipment, inclinometers, light meters, velometers, sling psychrometers, or colormetric detection tubes.
- Analyze complex systems to determine potential for further development, production, interoperability, compatibility, or usefulness in a particular area, such as aviation.
- Develop or implement human performance research, investigation, or analysis protocols.
- Review health, safety, accident, or worker compensation records to evaluate safety program effectiveness or to identify jobs with high incidents of injury.
Related Technology & Tools
- Interactive whiteboards
- Velometers
- Goniometers
- Computer laser printers
- Noise meters
- Video goggles
- Digital video cameras
- Electromagnetic motion analysis systems
- Tablet computers
- Automated blood pressure measurement equipment
- Octave band analyzers
- Manual blood pressure measurement equipment
- Electronic distance measuring devices
- Colorimeters
- Anthropometers
- Sling psychrometers
- Digital force gauges
- Inclinometers
- Hand sensor gloves
- Video projectors
- Electrocardiography EKG monitors
- Flight simulation equipment
- Heat stress meters
- Torsiometers
- Motion capture systems
- Light meters
- Electroencephalography EEG equipment
- Isokinetic dynamometers
- Desktop computers
- Microphones
- Hand dynamometers
- Touch screen monitors
- Lumbar motion monitors
- Personal computers
- Oxygen analyzers
- Electromyograph processing systems
- Laptop computers
- Exercise treadmills
- Algometers
- Digital audio recorders
- Haptic devices
- Push/pull dynamometers
- Laser Doppler flowmeters
- Heart rate monitors
- Body fat measurement calipers
- Microsoft Visio
- C++
- Data Translation quickDAQ
- AEMC DataView
- Hypertext markup language HTML
- Noldus Information Technology The Observer XT
- Oracle Java
- Noldus Information Technology FaceReader
- The MathWorks Simulink
- Dynamic hypertext markup language DHTML
- jQuery
- Mangold LogSquare
- Seeing Machines faceLAB
- Thought Technology BioGraph Infiniti
- Noldus Information Technology uLog Pro
- Bit Debris Solutions Usability Activity Log
- Statistical software
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- Dassault Systemes CATIA
- Adobe Systems Adobe Fireworks
- Mangold Soundalyzer
- Adobe Systems Adobe Flash
- Mozilla Firefox
- JavaScript
- Mangold INTERACT
- Microsoft Visual Basic
- Adobe Systems Adobe Photoshop
- SAS
- Dartfish ProSuite
- Computer aided design CAD software
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Office
- Adobe Systems Adobe Illustrator
- Apple Safari
- Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Adobe Systems Adobe Dreamweaver
- National Instruments LabVIEW
- Ovo Studios Ovo Logger
- AJAX
- SPSS
- Simulation software
- Microsoft Excel
- Altia Design
- Microsoft Word
- Cascading Style Sheets CSS
- TechSmith Morae
- TechSmith Camtasia
- Triangle Research Collaborative Observational Coding System OCS Tools