When business leaders talk about the virtues of a more environmentally-friendly approach to manufacturing, going green and saving green are not always connected. That’s both short-sighted and untrue, ...

FDA's quality system regulation (QSR) requirements essentially mandate the application of human factors processes and design principles in medical device development. 1 As Peter Carstensen, FDA's ...

ADELPHI, Md.-- For most tools, the outcome of its usage depends almost entirely on the actions of its human wielder. But due to the rise of automation and artificial intelligence, the growing ...

“Anyone doing design, development, or postmarket surveillance for a medical product that humans use should be considering human factors and usability,” Shannon Hoste, chief scientific officer at ...

For the agency, human factors is more than a buzzword. Manufacturers lacking a comprehensive approach to user-centered design are likely to find this out firsthand. Michael E. Wiklund Manufacturers ...

Learn and apply Human Factors/Ergonomics principles to the design of products (e.g., exoskeletons), operations, and work environments as they relate to human capacities, safety, and health. Our ...

Humans are great at solving certain types of problems. Machines are better at solving others. Tomorrow needs integrators who understand how humans use, interact with, and think and feel about ...

I don’t often write about OEM products. But since I covered the challenges of designing radios for cops and firefighters in the April 30 issue (see “Radio Interoperability—It’s Harder Than It Looks” ...

If you are interested in understanding people—how they think, behave, and interact with other people, technology, or the world around them—in order to improve their personal and professional ...

Leadership is essential to developing system safety. As outlined in the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) report, Free from Harm: Accelerating Patient Safety Improvement Fifteen Years after ...

We hope to share our experience and knowledge of the field of Human Factors Psychology with our readers here on the Mindsteps blog. Gerald S. Hawkins used the term "mindsteps" in 1983 to refer to the ...