Human factors

Human factors involves the study of all aspects of the way humans relate to the world around them, with the aim of improving operational performance, safety, through life costs and/or adoption through improvement in the experience of the end user.

The terms human factors and ergonomics have only been widely in the design and use of aircraft to improve aviation safety. It was in reference to the psychologists and physiologists working at that time and the work that they were doing that the terms applied psychology and ergonomics were first coined. 

As the thinking progressed, a new concept developed - that it was possible to view an organization such as an air-defense, man-machine system as a single organism and that it was possible to study the behavior of such an organism. It was the climate for a breakthrough.

Though some practitioners enter the field of human factors from other disciplines, both M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Human Factors Engineering are available from several universities worldwide. The art of ensuring successful application of Human Factors Engineering to a program me It can also be called ergonomics.