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