Human factors (also referred to as human factors psychology and human factors engineering) is an applied field of study that examines human abilities, limitations, behaviors, and processes in order to ...

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. What is human factors? That’s exactly the ...

The International Ergonomics Association defines human factors as “the scientific discipline concerned with the understanding of interactions among humans and other elements of a system, and the ...