| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Human factors | Human factors is a term used mainly in the United States. In Europe and the rest of the world, the term ergonomics is more prevalent. (references) | ||
| Human Factors for Highway Engineers (book) | Human Factors for Highway Engineers, ISBN 0080434126, is a book edited by R. Fuller and J. A. Santos published in 2001. It consists of articles by various authors who apply psychology and human factors to road safety and highway engineering. (references) | ||
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| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Human factors | Aerospace | 1: The art and science of studying how the human body operates under different conditions so equipment can be best shaped to serve human needs. (references) | |
| 2: The interaction between people and machine or the interaction among people that adds the real-time element to any simulated operation. (references) | |||
| 3: The study of psychophysical, psychological, and physiological variables which affect man's performance in an operational system. See human engineering. (references) | |||
| Human factors | European Union | Elongation: the increase in length of an tensile test piece when stressed. The elongation at fracture is usually expressed as a percentage of the original gauge length. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Human factors | Military | The systematic application of relevant information about human abilities, characteristics, behavior, motivation, and performance. It includes principles and applications in the areas of human engineering, anthropometrics, personnel selection, training, life support, job performance aids, and human performance evaluation. (references) | |
| Human factors engineering | Labor | Study of work, which, from the perspective of occupational safety and health, is concerned with the consequences of work activities on worker well-being. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Human factors specialist | Occupations | Conducts research, development, application, and evaluation of psychological principles relating human behavior to characteristics, design, and use of environments and systems within which human beings work and live: Collaborates with equipment designers in design, development, and utilization of man-machine systems to obtain optimum efficiency in terms of human capabilities. Advises on human factors to be considered in design of man-machine systems, military equipment, and industrial products. Participates in solving such problems as determining numbers and kinds of workers required to operate machines, allocation of functions to machines and operators, and layout and arrangement of work sites. Analyzes jobs to establish requirements for use in classification, selection, placement, and training of personnel [JOB ANALYST (profess. & kin.)]. Develops training methods and materials, such as curriculums, lectures, and films, and prepares handbooks of human engineering data for use by equipment and system designers. May conduct research to develop psychological theories concerning such subjects as effects of physical factors (temperature, humidity, vibration, noise, and illumination) on worker's behavior; functional design of dials, scales, meters, and other instruments to minimize sensory requirements; specifications for optimal size, shape, direction and speed of motion, and location of equipment controls; and effects of environmental, organismic, and task or job variables on work behavior and life quality. (references) | |
| State-of-the-Art Human Factors | Administration | The most effective design approaches established for use at the start of the final design phase. (references) | |
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Topics by Level of Interest: HUMAN FACTORS | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Human factors | 62 | DHS Science and Technology Human Factors Division | 8 | |
| DHS Science and Technology Human Factors Division | 8 | High velocity human factors | 6 | |
| Human Factors Lab | 8 | Human factors | 62 | |
| High velocity human factors | 6 | Human Factors Analysis and Classification System | 3 | |
| Human factors integration | 6 | Human factors integration | 6 | |
| Human Factors Analysis and Classification System | 3 | Human Factors Lab | 8 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
