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 ...

Customers have been frustrated, injured and even killed by confusing instructions, unclear operating procedures and poorly designed controls. In some cases, these interfaces and instructions were ...

ANSI/AAMI HE75:2025; Human factors engineering - Design of medical devices is the first update to AAMI's premier human factors standard since 2009. The standard is meant to assist users and ...

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 ...

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 ...

While the value of HF/SE in improving patient safety has been demonstrated, the field remains significantly underused and not well understood. 9 In this article we describe HF/SE, its different facets ...

Chamberlain was an economics major, but he says he was always interested in learning about many different fields. After ...

Human factors is an applied field of study at the crossroads of psychology, engineering, and computing that examines human abilities, limitations, behaviors, and processes in order to inform ...

The personnel at a nuclear power plant (NPP) play a vital role in the safe and efficient generation of power. Personnel performance and the resulting plant performance are influenced by many aspects ...

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 ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) technology rapidly advances and becomes widely integrated into industries and our daily lives, the nuclear industry is also exploring the use of AI applications. To ...

HEART and HEP methodologies present opportunities in enhancing human error assessment and risk management, particularly within R&D environments focused on device design. By integrating these ...