Human factors (also referred to as human factors psychology and human factors engineering) is an applied field of study that examines human abilities, limitations, behaviors, and processes in order to ...

Power-electronics design involves a multiplicity of tradeoffs that can be guided by criteria that are useful in assessing how close a design is to optimum. This article surveys some common guiding ...

A long-awaited government report on the World Trade Center collapse singles out several factors that may have contributed to the towers’ stunning fall and suggests ways to correct those flaws in ...

Human factors engineering applies our understanding of the abilities and limitations of the human mind to the design of aircraft cockpits by studying the interaction of the pilot’s mind with proposed ...

As the nerve center of an organization, a security operations center (SOC) or control room receives mountains of information and data from a wide variety of systems, including video, audio, access ...

Have you either observed or perhaps even conducted a summative usability test of a medical device? If so, you have undoubtedly witnessed a use error—an instance when a test participant made a mistake ...

Considering the following shipping-related factors during the product design phase can contribute significantly to a company becoming more profitable. How will your new product fit into your existing ...

Improving the administration and compliance of drug delivery is a common lifecycle strategy employed to enhance short- and long-term product adoption in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries ...

Manas Mehrotra is Founder, 315Work Avenue. Design is an integral part of the workspace as it plays an important role in determining work efficiency. A survey conducted among employees to understand ...