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