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