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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”
- 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.
- Conduct research to evaluate potential solutions related to changes in equipment design, procedures, manpower, personnel, or training.
- 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.
- Train users in task techniques or ergonomic principles.
- Perform functional, task, or anthropometric analysis, using tools such as checklists, surveys, videotaping or force measurement.
- Establish system operating or training requirements to ensure optimized human-machine interfaces.
- Estimate time or resource requirements for ergonomic or human factors research or development projects.
- Advocate for end users in collaboration with other professionals including engineers, designers, managers, or customers.
- 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.
- Design cognitive aids, such as procedural storyboards or decision support 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Analyze complex systems to determine potential for further development, production, interoperability, compatibility, or usefulness in a particular area, such as aviation.
- Collect data through direct observation of work activities or witnessing the conduct of tests.
- 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.
- Integrate human factors requirements into operational hardware.
- 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.
Related Technology & Tools
- Video projectors
- Torsiometers
- Anthropometers
- Desktop computers
- Hand dynamometers
- Digital audio recorders
- Heart rate monitors
- Electrocardiography EKG monitors
- Personal computers
- Oxygen analyzers
- Video goggles
- Exercise treadmills
- Laptop computers
- Microphones
- Tablet computers
- Haptic devices
- Motion capture systems
- Electromyograph processing systems
- Noise meters
- Velometers
- Laser Doppler flowmeters
- Light meters
- Sling psychrometers
- Automated blood pressure measurement equipment
- Push/pull dynamometers
- Body fat measurement calipers
- Electronic distance measuring devices
- Colorimeters
- Heat stress meters
- Manual blood pressure measurement equipment
- Flight simulation equipment
- Isokinetic dynamometers
- Touch screen monitors
- Octave band analyzers
- Computer laser printers
- Lumbar motion monitors
- Electromagnetic motion analysis systems
- Electroencephalography EEG equipment
- Digital video cameras
- Inclinometers
- Digital force gauges
- Hand sensor gloves
- Algometers
- Goniometers
- Interactive whiteboards
- Statistical software
- The MathWorks Simulink
- Thought Technology BioGraph Infiniti
- C++
- Adobe Systems Adobe Illustrator
- jQuery
- Cascading Style Sheets CSS
- National Instruments LabVIEW
- Adobe Systems Adobe Dreamweaver
- Microsoft Visual Basic
- Simulation software
- SPSS
- Adobe Systems Adobe Flash
- Bit Debris Solutions Usability Activity Log
- Ovo Studios Ovo Logger
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Data Translation quickDAQ
- Triangle Research Collaborative Observational Coding System OCS Tools
- Noldus Information Technology FaceReader
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- Mozilla Firefox
- Mangold LogSquare
- Mangold INTERACT
- Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Dassault Systemes CATIA
- Microsoft Excel
- Computer aided design CAD software
- TechSmith Morae
- Oracle Java
- Mangold Soundalyzer
- Apple Safari
- Dartfish ProSuite
- Adobe Systems Adobe Fireworks
- Altia Design
- Microsoft Visio
- Microsoft Word
- Hypertext markup language HTML
- SAS
- TechSmith Camtasia
- Noldus Information Technology The Observer XT
- Microsoft Office
- AEMC DataView
- Adobe Systems Adobe Photoshop
- Dynamic hypertext markup language DHTML
- AJAX
- Noldus Information Technology uLog Pro
- JavaScript
- Seeing Machines faceLAB