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