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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
- 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 “Usability Engineer”
- Design cognitive aids, such as procedural storyboards or decision support systems.
- Write, review, or comment on documents, such as proposals, test plans, or procedures.
- Develop or implement human performance research, investigation, or analysis protocols.
- Collect data through direct observation of work activities or witnessing the conduct of tests.
- 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.
- 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.
- Inspect work sites to identify physical hazards.
- Prepare reports or presentations summarizing results or conclusions of human factors engineering or ergonomics activities, such as testing, investigation, or validation.
- 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.
- Estimate time or resource requirements for ergonomic or human factors research or development projects.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Assess the user-interface or usability characteristics of products.
- Review health, safety, accident, or worker compensation records to evaluate safety program effectiveness or to identify jobs with high incidents of injury.
Related Technology & Tools
- Hand dynamometers
- Sling psychrometers
- Electromagnetic motion analysis systems
- Laptop computers
- Anthropometers
- Microphones
- Electroencephalography EEG equipment
- Goniometers
- Automated blood pressure measurement equipment
- Push/pull dynamometers
- Motion capture systems
- Flight simulation equipment
- Video goggles
- Haptic devices
- Velometers
- Manual blood pressure measurement equipment
- Isokinetic dynamometers
- Video projectors
- Lumbar motion monitors
- Tablet computers
- Touch screen monitors
- Hand sensor gloves
- Octave band analyzers
- Exercise treadmills
- Light meters
- Personal computers
- Noise meters
- Electromyograph processing systems
- Heat stress meters
- Digital force gauges
- Desktop computers
- Algometers
- Body fat measurement calipers
- Colorimeters
- Heart rate monitors
- Laser Doppler flowmeters
- Torsiometers
- Electrocardiography EKG monitors
- Oxygen analyzers
- Digital audio recorders
- Electronic distance measuring devices
- Interactive whiteboards
- Digital video cameras
- Inclinometers
- Computer laser printers
- Adobe Systems Adobe Illustrator
- Thought Technology BioGraph Infiniti
- Mangold Soundalyzer
- Dartfish ProSuite
- Adobe Systems Adobe Dreamweaver
- Microsoft Excel
- jQuery
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- Computer aided design CAD software
- Microsoft Visual Basic
- TechSmith Camtasia
- Adobe Systems Adobe Fireworks
- Seeing Machines faceLAB
- Ovo Studios Ovo Logger
- Dynamic hypertext markup language DHTML
- AJAX
- Mangold INTERACT
- Microsoft Office
- Cascading Style Sheets CSS
- Noldus Information Technology The Observer XT
- C++
- Dassault Systemes CATIA
- Adobe Systems Adobe Flash
- Data Translation quickDAQ
- Noldus Information Technology FaceReader
- Mangold LogSquare
- Adobe Systems Adobe Photoshop
- The MathWorks Simulink
- Microsoft Visio
- AEMC DataView
- Mozilla Firefox
- Hypertext markup language HTML
- Oracle Java
- Bit Debris Solutions Usability Activity Log
- JavaScript
- Triangle Research Collaborative Observational Coding System OCS Tools
- Apple Safari
- Simulation software
- National Instruments LabVIEW
- Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Altia Design
- SAS
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- SPSS
- Noldus Information Technology uLog Pro
- TechSmith Morae
- Microsoft Word
- Statistical software