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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”
- Train users in task techniques or ergonomic principles.
- Operate testing equipment, such as heat stress meters, octave band analyzers, motion analysis equipment, inclinometers, light meters, velometers, sling psychrometers, or colormetric detection tubes.
- Write, review, or comment on documents, such as proposals, test plans, or procedures.
- Inspect work sites to identify physical hazards.
- Advocate for end users in collaboration with other professionals including engineers, designers, managers, or customers.
- Prepare reports or presentations summarizing results or conclusions of human factors engineering or ergonomics activities, such as testing, investigation, or validation.
- Review health, safety, accident, or worker compensation records to evaluate safety program effectiveness or to identify jobs with high incidents of injury.
- Perform functional, task, or anthropometric analysis, using tools such as checklists, surveys, videotaping or force measurement.
- Integrate human factors requirements into operational hardware.
- Analyze complex systems to determine potential for further development, production, interoperability, compatibility, or usefulness in a particular area, such as aviation.
- Assess the user-interface or usability characteristics of products.
- Recommend workplace changes to improve health and safety, using knowledge of potentially harmful factors, such as heavy loads or repetitive motions.
- Establish system operating or training requirements to ensure optimized human-machine interfaces.
- Conduct research to evaluate potential solutions related to changes in equipment design, procedures, manpower, personnel, or training.
- Conduct interviews or surveys of users or customers to collect information on topics such as requirements, needs, fatigue, ergonomics, or interfaces.
- Design cognitive aids, such as procedural storyboards or decision support systems.
- 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.
- Investigate theoretical or conceptual issues, such as the human design considerations of lunar landers or habitats.
- 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.
- Collect data through direct observation of work activities or witnessing the conduct of tests.
- Estimate time or resource requirements for ergonomic or human factors research or development projects.
- 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.
- Develop or implement human performance research, investigation, or analysis protocols.
- 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.
- Design or evaluate human work systems, using human factors engineering and ergonomic principles to optimize usability, cost, quality, safety, or performance.
- 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.
Related Technology & Tools
- Lumbar motion monitors
- Algometers
- Electroencephalography EEG equipment
- Exercise treadmills
- Hand dynamometers
- Manual blood pressure measurement equipment
- Automated blood pressure measurement equipment
- Laptop computers
- Hand sensor gloves
- Microphones
- Noise meters
- Desktop computers
- Heat stress meters
- Video goggles
- Electromagnetic motion analysis systems
- Body fat measurement calipers
- Torsiometers
- Inclinometers
- Sling psychrometers
- Octave band analyzers
- Tablet computers
- Flight simulation equipment
- Motion capture systems
- Personal computers
- Touch screen monitors
- Video projectors
- Laser Doppler flowmeters
- Anthropometers
- Light meters
- Interactive whiteboards
- Electronic distance measuring devices
- Digital audio recorders
- Digital force gauges
- Computer laser printers
- Velometers
- Colorimeters
- Push/pull dynamometers
- Oxygen analyzers
- Electrocardiography EKG monitors
- Goniometers
- Isokinetic dynamometers
- Digital video cameras
- Heart rate monitors
- Haptic devices
- Electromyograph processing systems
- Ovo Studios Ovo Logger
- Noldus Information Technology FaceReader
- Apple Safari
- Cascading Style Sheets CSS
- National Instruments LabVIEW
- Computer aided design CAD software
- Bit Debris Solutions Usability Activity Log
- SPSS
- TechSmith Camtasia
- Noldus Information Technology uLog Pro
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- Dartfish ProSuite
- Microsoft Office
- Seeing Machines faceLAB
- Noldus Information Technology The Observer XT
- Altia Design
- Microsoft Visual Basic
- AEMC DataView
- Adobe Systems Adobe Photoshop
- Simulation software
- SAS
- Microsoft Word
- Triangle Research Collaborative Observational Coding System OCS Tools
- Mangold LogSquare
- Microsoft Excel
- Data Translation quickDAQ
- Mozilla Firefox
- Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Hypertext markup language HTML
- Statistical software
- TechSmith Morae
- Dynamic hypertext markup language DHTML
- Thought Technology BioGraph Infiniti
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- C++
- JavaScript
- Mangold INTERACT
- Adobe Systems Adobe Illustrator
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- jQuery
- Oracle Java
- Adobe Systems Adobe Flash
- The MathWorks Simulink
- Dassault Systemes CATIA
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- Microsoft Visio