Human Factors/Ergonomics
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The convergent scientific disciplines of human factors and ergonomics (HF/E) are primarily concerned with how human beings interact with technological systems in all their various forms. HF/E has focused particularly on ways of improving the quality and safety of human work. Contemporary HF/E encompasses the imagination, design, fabrication, operation, maintenance, and decommissioning of all technical systems. To accomplish these goals, HF/E draws heavily on the theoretical and empirical bases of experimental psychology and, more recently, the neurosciences. It combines these theoretical perspectives on human behavior with the practical tenets and principles of engineering. The aim of this fusion is to optimize the conjoint abilities of humans and technological systems. HF/E is also involved with the creative processes of design as well as the affective nature of user experience. In seeking to accomplish such aims, HF/E professionals draw information from a wide variety of allied areas, ranging from ethnology and sociology through engineering, modeling and simulation, to anatomy and physiology. While HF/E has been, since its inception, a pursuit directed to the practical improvement of human life, it is important that its future should be much more central in articulating and achieving the more fundamental purposes of humankind. This article begins with a brief perusal of the history of HF/E: for, to see clearly into the future, we have to look well into the past.
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