Human factors engineering (HFE) has been an essential element of medical device and combination product development for some time. Some development teams, however, may still struggle with fully ...

“Anyone doing design, development, or postmarket surveillance for a medical product that humans use should be considering human factors and usability,” Shannon Hoste, chief scientific officer at ...

U.S. and EU regulators require human factors and usability testing to bring a medical device to market. Virginia Lang, PhD, president and chief scientist at HirLan Inc., an engineering consultancy ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rimkus Consulting Group, Inc. (“Rimkus”), a premier global provider of engineering, technical consulting, and life sciences services, is pleased to announce the acquisition ...

The tension between safety considerations and user experience design (UXD) in the medical device industry reflects broader regulatory and market pressures. When designing and developing medical ...

When instincts make you pull on a door that should be pushed, that’s flawed design. When you find a new Garmin product intuitive and easy to use, that’s human factors engineering at work. Features ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES), the world’s largest scientific association for human factors/ergonomics professionals, announced that the society’s ...

Design of engineering systems, machines, consumer goods, etc. which acommodate the characteristics of human users, operators and manitaners. Methods for obtaining data about human performance, ...

How does the Department of Defense adapt to challenging experiences from the human perspective? From May 8 through May 12, Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) hosted the Department ...