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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
- Principal Engineer
- PI/Senior Research Associate
- 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
- Senior Research Associate
- Safety Specialist
- President Ergonomic Consulting
- 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 “Senior Research Associate”
- Integrate human factors requirements into operational hardware.
- Operate testing equipment, such as heat stress meters, octave band analyzers, motion analysis equipment, inclinometers, light meters, velometers, sling psychrometers, or colormetric detection tubes.
- Investigate theoretical or conceptual issues, such as the human design considerations of lunar landers or habitats.
- 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.
- Train users in task techniques or ergonomic principles.
- Assess the user-interface or usability characteristics of products.
- Estimate time or resource requirements for ergonomic or human factors research or development projects.
- Perform functional, task, or anthropometric analysis, using tools such as checklists, surveys, videotaping or force measurement.
- Prepare reports or presentations summarizing results or conclusions of human factors engineering or ergonomics activities, such as testing, investigation, or validation.
- 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.
- Advocate for end users in collaboration with other professionals including engineers, designers, managers, or customers.
- Establish system operating or training requirements to ensure optimized human-machine interfaces.
- 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.
- Develop or implement human performance research, investigation, or analysis protocols.
- Write, review, or comment on documents, such as proposals, test plans, or procedures.
- Recommend workplace changes to improve health and safety, using knowledge of potentially harmful factors, such as heavy loads or repetitive motions.
- Analyze complex systems to determine potential for further development, production, interoperability, compatibility, or usefulness in a particular area, such as aviation.
- Conduct interviews or surveys of users or customers to collect information on topics such as requirements, needs, fatigue, ergonomics, or interfaces.
- Inspect work sites to identify physical hazards.
- Design cognitive aids, such as procedural storyboards or decision support systems.
- Collect data through direct observation of work activities or witnessing the conduct of tests.
- Review health, safety, accident, or worker compensation records to evaluate safety program effectiveness or to identify jobs with high incidents of injury.
- 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.
- Conduct research to evaluate potential solutions related to changes in equipment design, procedures, manpower, personnel, or training.
- 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.
Related Technology & Tools
- Oxygen analyzers
- Torsiometers
- Octave band analyzers
- Haptic devices
- Digital audio recorders
- Digital force gauges
- Motion capture systems
- Electromyograph processing systems
- Electromagnetic motion analysis systems
- Touch screen monitors
- Inclinometers
- Exercise treadmills
- Isokinetic dynamometers
- Goniometers
- Colorimeters
- Lumbar motion monitors
- Heart rate monitors
- Personal computers
- Automated blood pressure measurement equipment
- Laptop computers
- Push/pull dynamometers
- Hand dynamometers
- Laser Doppler flowmeters
- Manual blood pressure measurement equipment
- Video projectors
- Electroencephalography EEG equipment
- Light meters
- Video goggles
- Noise meters
- Computer laser printers
- Anthropometers
- Digital video cameras
- Hand sensor gloves
- Interactive whiteboards
- Tablet computers
- Microphones
- Algometers
- Heat stress meters
- Electrocardiography EKG monitors
- Sling psychrometers
- Electronic distance measuring devices
- Flight simulation equipment
- Velometers
- Desktop computers
- Body fat measurement calipers
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