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