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