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What is Human Factors
1.
Components of engineering design that focus on the aspects related to
human
users and operators.
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2.
A domain offering research and guidance on how to design work, and the tools of work, to provide the best match with work goals, people’s needs, and
human
physical and cognitive capabilities.
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3.
The
human factors
(or ergonomics) is the study of how individuals react to certain environments, products, or services in physical and psychological terms.
Learn more in: Trends in Macroergonomics Applications for Improved Work Systems
4.
The interactions between the people, equipment, systems and processes in a complex healthcare environment.
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5.
This is the field devoted to understanding and applying the properties of
human
capabilities to the design and development of systems with the aim of improving operational performance and safety.
Learn more in: Neo-Symbiosis
6.
Those
factors
or organisational issues which relate to, and are the results of the actions of, people; also known as the people factor.
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7.
Refers to the environmental, organizational, and job
factors
, and
human
and individual characteristics that influence behavior at work and affect health and safety in the workplace.
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8.
In engineering, it is the practice of designing products, systems or processes to account for the interaction between machines and the people who use them. As with media studies, the field is interdisciplinary and has seen contributions from numerous disciplines such as psychology, engineering, biomechanics, industrial design, physiology and anthropology. The term is essentially synonymous with ergonomics, which is the scientific discipline concerned with the understanding of interactions between
human
s and other elements of a system through the application of theory, principles, and methods to optimize
human
well-being and overall system performance.
Learn more in: A Media Interpretation of the Negative Impact of Cloud Technologies
9.
Human factors
discovers and applies information about
human
behavior, abilities, limitations, and other characteristics to the design of tools, machines, systems, tasks, jobs, and environments for productive, safe, comfortable, and effective
human
use (Chapanis, 1985, p. 2)
Learn more in: A Human Factors View of the Digital Divide
10.
The scientific discipline for understanding interactions among
human
s and other elements of a system, applying theory, principles, data, and methods to optimize
human
well-being and overall system performance.
Learn more in: Visual Ethnography as a Research Methodology: Enhancing the Depth of Scholarship
11.
The interdisciplinary field devoted to the investigation of cognitive and physical characteristics of
human
s that influence their interactions with computers and other machines and systems.
Learn more in: Human Factors in Information Security and Privacy
12.
A science field that aims at understanding the interactions between
human
s and other elements of a system, not only by addressing the most current research challenges with a multidisciplinary approach, but also by applying theory, principles, data, modelling, and other methods to design, in order to optimize both
human
well-being and overall system performance.
Learn more in: Industrial Occupational Safety: Industry 4.0 Upcoming Challenges
13.
Incorporating psychological and physiological principles into the engineering and design of products, processes, and systems.
Learn more in: A Composite Risk Model for Optimizing Information System Security
14.
It is a broad and diverse group of communicational, linguistic, sociological, psychological, cultural and anthropological components that positively or negatively influence
human
behavior, in the context of the new technologies and all their derivations.
Learn more in: Software and Innovation: Detecting Invisible High-Quality Factors
15.
Is a set of data and principles about
human
characteristics, capabilities, and limitations in relation to machines, jobs, and environments. It is a multidisciplinary field incorporating contributions from psychology, engineering, information design, industrial design, biomechanics, organizational psychology, social psychology, sociology, and physiology, for instance.
Learn more in: E-Commerce for Italian Textile Manufacturers: Limitations and Human Factors
16.
The study of how
human
s interact with systems.
Learn more in: Design the Technological Society for an Aging Population
17.
The study of
human
cognitive and physical abilities and their implications for the design and use of products and systems.
Learn more in: Human Factors: An Authentic Learning Mobile Application Design Project in a Higher Education and Industry Context
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