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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
Also Known As…
- 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 “Human Factors Engineers and Ergonomists”
- Design cognitive aids, such as procedural storyboards or decision support systems.
- Analyze complex systems to determine potential for further development, production, interoperability, compatibility, or usefulness in a particular area, such as aviation.
- Conduct research to evaluate potential solutions related to changes in equipment design, procedures, manpower, personnel, or training.
- Operate testing equipment, such as heat stress meters, octave band analyzers, motion analysis equipment, inclinometers, light meters, velometers, sling psychrometers, or colormetric detection tubes.
- 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.
- Inspect work sites to identify physical hazards.
- 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.
- Collect data through direct observation of work activities or witnessing the conduct of tests.
- Write, review, or comment on documents, such as proposals, test plans, or procedures.
- Develop or implement human performance research, investigation, or analysis protocols.
- 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.
- 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.
- Conduct interviews or surveys of users or customers to collect information on topics such as requirements, needs, fatigue, ergonomics, or interfaces.
- Integrate human factors requirements into operational hardware.
- Advocate for end users in collaboration with other professionals including engineers, designers, managers, or customers.
- Train users in task techniques or ergonomic principles.
- Prepare reports or presentations summarizing results or conclusions of human factors engineering or ergonomics activities, such as testing, investigation, or validation.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Establish system operating or training requirements to ensure optimized human-machine interfaces.
Related Technology & Tools
- Laser Doppler flowmeters
- Lumbar motion monitors
- Flight simulation equipment
- Goniometers
- Torsiometers
- Touch screen monitors
- Heat stress meters
- Desktop computers
- Inclinometers
- Oxygen analyzers
- Velometers
- Automated blood pressure measurement equipment
- Exercise treadmills
- Electroencephalography EEG equipment
- Video goggles
- Electromagnetic motion analysis systems
- Hand dynamometers
- Motion capture systems
- Digital video cameras
- Light meters
- Anthropometers
- Push/pull dynamometers
- Electromyograph processing systems
- Algometers
- Isokinetic dynamometers
- Haptic devices
- Heart rate monitors
- Sling psychrometers
- Computer laser printers
- Manual blood pressure measurement equipment
- Electrocardiography EKG monitors
- Laptop computers
- Electronic distance measuring devices
- Interactive whiteboards
- Hand sensor gloves
- Noise meters
- Octave band analyzers
- Video projectors
- Digital force gauges
- Body fat measurement calipers
- Colorimeters
- Personal computers
- Microphones
- Tablet computers
- Digital audio recorders
- Ovo Studios Ovo Logger
- Adobe Systems Adobe Dreamweaver
- Noldus Information Technology FaceReader
- TechSmith Morae
- TechSmith Camtasia
- Thought Technology BioGraph Infiniti
- Noldus Information Technology The Observer XT
- AEMC DataView
- Data Translation quickDAQ
- SAS
- Microsoft Word
- JavaScript
- Mangold INTERACT
- Seeing Machines faceLAB
- Triangle Research Collaborative Observational Coding System OCS Tools
- Mangold Soundalyzer
- Noldus Information Technology uLog Pro
- Microsoft Visio
- Adobe Systems Adobe Flash
- Altia Design
- Apple Safari
- jQuery
- Oracle Java
- Statistical software
- C++
- Bit Debris Solutions Usability Activity Log
- Hypertext markup language HTML
- Microsoft Visual Basic
- The MathWorks Simulink
- Adobe Systems Adobe Fireworks
- AJAX
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Adobe Systems Adobe Photoshop
- Microsoft Office
- Mozilla Firefox
- Adobe Systems Adobe Illustrator
- Cascading Style Sheets CSS
- Dartfish ProSuite
- Dassault Systemes CATIA
- Simulation software
- Mangold LogSquare
- National Instruments LabVIEW
- Microsoft Internet Explorer
- SPSS
- Dynamic hypertext markup language DHTML
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- Computer aided design CAD software
- Microsoft Excel