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Understand how work is done, and describe it in terms of flow, time, or elements.
Functional Analysis is an umbrella term for a variety of methods that can be used early in the system development process (Nemeth, 2004). The types of questions that can be answered using function...
Find best arrangement of elements in a design
Link Analysis (LA) can be used to arrange the location of equipment and individuals in a workplace, and to arrange controls and displays on a console based on how often elements interact, or are used together.
As a form of...
Learn how work is actually done in real circumstances.
Observing people in the context of their work environment can be used to gain insight into how individuals and teams perform their work. By watching intently in actual work settings, understanding “emerges from the...
Methods are the processes research and development teams follow to create tools for operators. They typically follow three phases.
Research--Learn about rail operations, how operators do their work, what goals they need to accomplish and what gets in their way. Requirements this phase...
Eye tracking is the process of capturing what a person is looking at, or the direction where he/she is looking, using sensors mounted on a nearby work surface or a head harness (as the illustration at right shows).
How is eye...Human Factors Design Guidelines for Multifunction Displays by Mejdal, McCauley, & Beringer (2001) provides a series of human factors guidelines for the design of multifunction displays including issues of attention and distraction. It provides general principles and...
Human Factors Guidelines for Road Systems, 2nd Ed, provides human factors principles and guidelines for use by highway designers, traffic engineers, and other highway safety practitioners to support operational...
Human Factors Considerations in the Design and Evaluation of Flight Deck Displays and Controls, Version 1, sponsored by the FAA Human Factors Division, is intended to be a single source reference for Human...