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