Systems Ergonomics/Human Factors

Systems Ergonomics/Human Factors

1. Accounts for

   • The design of a system, and people’s interactions with it
     • Rather than
       • Concentrating on an individual part of it.
         • That system can be a
           • Facility
           • Enviorment
           • Building
           • Work site
           • Group
           • Artefact
           • Community
           • Organization
           • Society

2. That is, systems E/HF treats the focus of interest as a system e as an interacting combination of DNA, materials (organic and inorganic), bytes, functions/processes and ideas. These combinations may not be stable, indeed where systems are complex they will not, nor should, be stable as recognized by the resilience engineering movement, and our focus is on the inter-connections as much or more than the components. Our systems of interest used to be limited to human- (or man-) made at one time, but now we also have an interest in the investigation and “design” of people’s interaction with or within natural systems if not design of the natural systems themselves

3. Related to

   • System engineering
     • Features as
       • topedown approach
       • Life-cycle orientation
       • early concentration on defining systems re- quierments
       • team-based approach in te development
       • Interdisciplinary

4. It has

   • Notions
     • Like
       • System focus