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HFETAG
Episode 62
...and now for another Human Factors Minute! The Department of Defense Human Factors Engineering Technical Advisory Group (DoD HFE TAG) is composed of technical representatives from the Department o…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
Cognitive Walkthrough
Episode 61
...and now for another Human Factors Minute! Cognitive walkthrough: This method is a usability inspection method in which the evaluators can apply user perspective to task scenarios to identify desi…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
HFESTG - Human Performance Modeling
Episode 60
...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 applicati…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
CHI
Episode 59
...and now for another Human Factors Minute! The Association for Computing Machinery (or ACM) hosts an annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (frequently refered to as CHI). This s…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
Predetermined Time Standards
Episode 58
...and now for another Human Factors Minute! Predetermined time standards (PTS) are advanced techniques which aim at defining the time needed for the performance of various operations by derivation …
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
Chernobyl (Part 6)
Episode 57
...and now for another Human Factors Minute! 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 f…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
HFESTG - Health Care
Episode 56
...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 applicati…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
Workplace Safety
Episode 55
...and now for another Human Factors Minute! A U.S. worker dies as a result of a workplace injury every 2 hours. In 2011 alone, almost 4 million U.S. workers were injured on the job. While the Work…
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago
Work Sampling
Episode 54
...and now for another Human Factors Minute! Work sampling is a method in which the job is sampled at random intervals to determine the proportion of total time spent on a particular task.[46] It pr…
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago
Chernobyl (Part 5)
Episode 53
...and now for another Human Factors Minute! Highly-trained and experienced operators can often compensate for a poor design; however, in the case of the Chernobyl disaster, the designers gave the o…
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago