Job Description:

• 1) Conducts research, development, application, and evaluation of psychological principles relating human behavior to characteristics, design, and use of environments and systems within which human beings work and live: Collaborates with equipment designers in design, development, and utilization of man-machine systems to obtain optimum efficiency in terms of human capabilities.

• 2) Advises on human factors to be considered in design of man-machine systems, military equipment, and industrial products.

• 3) Participates in solving such problems as determining numbers and kinds of workers required to operate machines, allocation of functions to machines and operators, and layout and arrangement of work sites.

• 4) Analyzes jobs to establish requirements for use in classification, selection, placement, and training of personnel.

• 5) Develops training methods and materials, such as curriculums, lectures, and films, and prepares handbooks of human engineering data for use by equipment and system designers.

• 6) May conduct research to develop psychological theories concerning such subjects as effects of physical factors on worker's behavior; functional design of dials, scales, meters, and other instruments to minimize sensory requirements; specifications for optimal size, shape, direction and speed of motion, and location of equipment controls; and effects of environmental, organismic, and task or job variables on work behavior and life quality.