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