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