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