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