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