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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 “Senior Research Associate”
- Design cognitive aids, such as procedural storyboards or decision support systems.
- 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.
- 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.
- Develop or implement human performance research, investigation, or analysis protocols.
- Assess the user-interface or usability characteristics of products.
- 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.
- Investigate theoretical or conceptual issues, such as the human design considerations of lunar landers or habitats.
- Conduct interviews or surveys of users or customers to collect information on topics such as requirements, needs, fatigue, ergonomics, or interfaces.
- 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.
- Write, review, or comment on documents, such as proposals, test plans, or procedures.
- Perform functional, task, or anthropometric analysis, using tools such as checklists, surveys, videotaping or force measurement.
- Train users in task techniques or ergonomic principles.
- Inspect work sites to identify physical hazards.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Design or evaluate human work systems, using human factors engineering and ergonomic principles to optimize usability, cost, quality, safety, or performance.
- Review health, safety, accident, or worker compensation records to evaluate safety program effectiveness or to identify jobs with high incidents of injury.
- Collect data through direct observation of work activities or witnessing the conduct of tests.
- Estimate time or resource requirements for ergonomic or human factors research or development projects.
- Recommend workplace changes to improve health and safety, using knowledge of potentially harmful factors, such as heavy loads or repetitive motions.
- Integrate human factors requirements into operational hardware.
- Analyze complex systems to determine potential for further development, production, interoperability, compatibility, or usefulness in a particular area, such as aviation.
Related Technology & Tools
- Colorimeters
- Digital video cameras
- Personal computers
- Light meters
- Electromagnetic motion analysis systems
- Electromyograph processing systems
- Goniometers
- Manual blood pressure measurement equipment
- Electrocardiography EKG monitors
- Haptic devices
- Electroencephalography EEG equipment
- Video projectors
- Exercise treadmills
- Laptop computers
- Push/pull dynamometers
- Desktop computers
- Hand sensor gloves
- Hand dynamometers
- Oxygen analyzers
- Body fat measurement calipers
- Isokinetic dynamometers
- Anthropometers
- Lumbar motion monitors
- Torsiometers
- Electronic distance measuring devices
- Microphones
- Laser Doppler flowmeters
- Heat stress meters
- Inclinometers
- Sling psychrometers
- Automated blood pressure measurement equipment
- Tablet computers
- Interactive whiteboards
- Digital force gauges
- Flight simulation equipment
- Algometers
- Digital audio recorders
- Motion capture systems
- Octave band analyzers
- Noise meters
- Touch screen monitors
- Video goggles
- Computer laser printers
- Velometers
- Heart rate monitors
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- Apple Safari
- Microsoft Visio
- The MathWorks MATLAB
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- SPSS
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- Mozilla Firefox
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- Dynamic hypertext markup language DHTML
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- Microsoft Office
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- Triangle Research Collaborative Observational Coding System OCS Tools
- Cascading Style Sheets CSS
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Internet Explorer
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- Hypertext markup language HTML
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