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Revision as of 01:11, 21 October 2019
Human factors (also known by its acronym, HF; hereinafter, HF) is the scientific study of influence of human characteristics called factors on interactions between people and other entities that form one system, as well as those interactions themselves.
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Trivia
Definitions
- According to the International Ergonomics Association,
Ergonomics (human factors) is the scientific discipline concerned with the understanding of the interactions among humans and other elements of a system, and the profession that applies theory principles, data, and methods to design in order to optimize human well-being and overall system performance.
History
- To reduce human errors, the aviation industry developed the crew resource management (CRM) training for airplane crew in the 1980s. The HF term was initially used to indicate the science behind this training.
- Because of the CRM success, both training and science behind it were spread to aircraft maintenance known as maintenance resource management (MRM) in the 1990s. Later, some other industries such as nuclear energy and cyber-security, as well as occupations such as information architects started contributing to this scientific study.
Human-to-non-human
- Main wikipage: Human-machine interaction
HF in systems engineering
- Main wikipage: Human factors engineering
System vs user
User interface
- Main wikipage: User interface
