Human Factors Minute

By Human Factors Cast

Step into the world of Human Factors and UX with the Human Factors Minute podcast! Each episode is like a mini-crash course in all things related to the field, packed with valuable insights and inform... more

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September 20, 2024 Product Liability
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For almost a century, manufacturers have had the burden to provide products that are safe for the intended uses AND foreseeable misuses of their products. When product users are injured through the foreseeable use (or misuse) of a product, we analyze three phases of the product's development: the design, guards and warnings.
Manufacturers have the responsibility to eliminate known hazards, or to take reasonable steps to guard the user from being inadvertently exposed to the hazard. If the hazard cannot be feasibly eliminated or guarded, effective instructions and warnings are necessary to alert and inform the user about the hazard, how to avoid the hazard, and the consequences of not avoiding the hazard.
We can determine the likelihood that the defect existed when it left the manufacturer's hands, if the product was unreasonably altered, and if a defect was the proximate cause of an injury. Product liability often includes human factors analysis of the adequacy of instructions and warnings that accompanied the product.
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September 10, 2024 Kansei Method
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The Kansei method is a method that transforms consumer's responses to new products into design specifications. Also known as Kansei engineering this discipline aims at the development or improvement of products and services by translating the customer's psychological feelings and needs into the domain of product design and parameters. As a result, products can be designed to bring forward the intended feeling.
Kansei engineering can be considered as a methodology within the research field of 'affective engineering' and can be used as a tool for product development.
Three focal points in the kansei method include:
Accurately understanding the consumer
Reflecting and translating consumer understanding into product design
and How to create a system and organization for consumer orientated design
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August 31, 2024 Augmented Cognition
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Augmented Cognition research and development efforts seek to extend a user’s abilities via computational technologies that are explicitly designed to address and accommodate bottlenecks, limitations, and biases in cognition, such as limitations in attention, memory, learning, comprehension, visualization abilities, and decision making. At its core, the Augmented Cognition is concerned with fostering the development and application of:
• Real-time physiological and neurophysiological sensing technologies that can ascertain a
human’s cognitive state while interacting with computing-based systems;
• Mitigation (adaptive) strategies that enable efficient and effective system adaptation based on
a user’s dynamically changing cognitive state;
• Individually-tailored training systems;
The Augmented Cognition aims to
discover, develop, and apply neuroscience-based methodologies and tools that can enhance the
human-centered approaches inl human-system integration issues,
specific human-computer interaction techniques, or a combination of both.
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August 20, 2024 HFESTG - Environmental Design
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Did you know that the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society has 24 technical groups that are concerned with the human factors aspects of specific application areas? One of those is the environmental design technical group.
The Environmental Design Technical Group is concerned with the relationship between human behavior and the designed environment. Common areas of research and interest include ergonomic and macroergonomic aspects of design within home, office, and industrial settings.
At a time when there is great focus on creating sustainable environments it plays a vital role in bringing together researchers with the latest ideas to improve the places where we live, learn, laugh and love, and to span all ages, from children to the elderly.
An overall objective of this group is to foster and encourage the integration of ergonomics principles into the design of environments.
To find out more about HFES and their technical groups, visit HFES.org. This has been another Human Factors Minute!
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August 10, 2024 HFETAG
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The Department of Defense Human Factors Engineering Technical Advisory Group (DoD HFE TAG) is composed of technical representatives from the Department of Defense (DoD), National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) with research and development responsibility in human factors and related disciplines. There is no limitation on the number of uniform or civilian representatives from the above governmental entities. Representatives from organizations and activities with allied interests and technical experts in special topical areas are also invited to attend specific meetings.Also participating in the HFE TAG are official representatives of technical societies or industry associations with a stated interest in human factors. These representatives must be credentialed by the HFE TAG before attending. Refer to the Technical Society/Industry (TS/I) section of the SubTAG page for more information.
TAG meetings are not open to the general public. In addition to Government employees, Government contractors, employees of private industry and academia may attend meetings if they are credentialed members of TS/I or have an invitation to attend a specific meeting from a current TAG member. The invitation must be submitted to the TAG Chair for approval at the time of registration.
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July 31, 2024 Cognitive Walkthrough
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Cognitive walkthrough: This method is a usability inspection method in which the evaluators can apply user perspective to task scenarios to identify design problems. As applied to macroergonomics, evaluators are able to analyze the usability of work system designs to identify how well a work system is organized and how well the workflow is integrated.
The focus of the cognitive walkthrough is on understanding the system's learnability for new or infrequent users. The cognitive walkthrough was originally designed as a tool to evaluate walk-up-and-use systems like postal kiosks, automated teller machines (ATMs), and interactive exhibits in museums where users would have little or no training. However, the cognitive walkthrough has been employed successfully with more complex systems like CAD software and software development tools to understand the first experience of new users.
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July 20, 2024 HFESTG - Human Performance Modeling
...and now for another Human Factors Minute! Did you know that the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society has 24 technical groups that are concerned with the human factors aspects of specific application areas?
One of those is The Human Performance Modeling Technical Group .
This technical group focuses on the development and application of predictive, reliable, and executable quantitative models of human performance.
The TG is an outgrowth of the renewal of interest in the human factors community towards the development of engineering style approaches appropriate for problems in human factors.
This movement has been centered on quantitative models. It considers the human, engaged in some goal-directed behavior, in the context of a specific task environment.
This TG uses models that integrate perception, cognition, and action in a task context and will encompass all quantitative executable representations of human performance that are potentially useful in human factors research or application.
To find out more about HFES and their technical groups, visit HFES.org. This has been another Human Factors Minute!
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July 10, 2024 CHI
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The Association for Computing Machinery (or ACM) hosts an annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (frequently refered to as CHI).
This series of academic conferences is generally considered one of the most prestigious in the field of human-computer interaction.
It is hosted by ACM SIGCHI, the Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction and is a place where researchers and practitioners gather from across the world to discuss the latest in interactive technology.
CHI attracts thousands of international attendees and has been held annually since 1982. For more information on CHI, visit SIGCHI.org
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June 30, 2024 Predetermined Time Standards
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Predetermined time standards (PTS) are advanced techniques which aim at defining the time needed for the performance of various operations by derivation from preset standards of time for various motions and not by direct observation and measurement.
A predetermined time standard is a work measurement technique whereby times established for basic human motions classified according to the nature of the motion and the conditions under which it is made is used to build up the time for a job at a defined level of performance.
A few of my most widely used predetermined time systems include the Methods-Time-Measurement (MTM). Maynard Operation Sequence Technique (MOST), and Modular Arrangement of Predetermined Tiem Standards (MODAPTS).
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June 20, 2024 Chernobyl (Part 6)
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There are a few lessons learned that we can take from the Chernobyl disaster.
Engaging our colleagues and leaders on the topics of human error, design failures and safety culture can help improve our workplaces.
Here are a few questions you can ask about your workplace:
What human factors influenced the behaviours of the operators in the control room? What factors might influence the key decisions that you and your team make?
Does your organisation impose artificial deadlines that may lead to corner-cutting or shortcuts, in order to meet targets?
Investigations sometimes conclude that an incident is the result of ‘human error’ and blame a few individuals. If we take this approach, how effective will we be at preventing similar events?
The design features of the RBMK nuclear reactors were known elsewhere, but not communicated to the personnel at Chernobyl. How does your organisation learn lessons? Do you really learn lessons (e.g. change your designs or processes), or do you simply share the messages? Does anyone follow-up that learnings have been embedded?
Are near-misses investigated and lessons shared within your company (and with the wider industry)? What might prevent such sharing?
How do you prepare staff for unusual situations, process upsets and emergencies?
How can you improve the effectiveness of on-site emergency plans (those implemented by the company) and off-site emergency plans (those implemented by the authorities)?
The criticality accident was not imagined by the designers. How can we identify and manage accident scenarios that are not currently addressed in existing analyses, safety reports or safety cases?
What are the disadvantages of relying upon operators to follow written instructions? What would be a more reliable approach?
Hopefully these questions were helpful to start applying some of the lessons learned from Chernobyl to your everyday lives.
That's all on Chernobyl for now, but we may revisit the topic in the future.
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