Human Factors Success Stories

As participants in the 28th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors Society, we are all concerned with the influence of human characteristics on engineering and design processes. We know that success in our endeavors depends on how well we understand human factors and how well we translate that understanding into the development of products, entertainment, systems, facilities, environments, organizations, and procedures. We also know that success can take a variety of forms and can be attained to varying degrees depending on our objective, the way we measure our progress, and the stage of the development process that we address. These three dimensions of success – objectives, measures, and stages – provide the framework within which I will tell you some human factors success stories