Salaries for human factors engineers, human factors psychologists, and related human factors fields is high. In a 2017 survey done by the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society , it was suggested that ...

Human-factors engineering helps organizations to not only minimize human errors and maximize productivity, but also to improve their safety performance. When planning training, ...

In his first The Human Factor column, John B. Tippett Jr. explains that human factors involve decision-making, leadership, communication, performance and desired results.

Why are ATM machines so hard to operate? These seemingly unrelated questions also fall under the general heading of human factors or applied psychology. This can also be referred to as engineering ...

I am a human factors practitioner. I’ve been a member of a human factors society for about 40 years, and I’ve attended almost all of its annual conferences.

Human perceptions hold the key to the future of solar geoengineering and other approaches to cool our warming planet.

The current regulatory basis for human factors considerations in avionics systems is pilot workload. A new rule, however, which creates a regulatory basis for design-related human error, would, in ...

The role of human factors in aviation organizations, especially those that perform aircraft maintenance, is crucial to the entity’s success. It is also most likely to meet resistance from the ...