In this episode, HFIG talks to Dr. Caroline Cao, a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at IMT Atlantique in France and a Professor of Biomedical, Industrial and Human Factors Engineering at Wright State University, and Dr. Barrett Caldwell, a Professor of Industrial Engineering at Purdue University. We talked about the role of human factors in the design process, how we can educate engineering students and industry professionals about the importance of human factors, and how we should raise awareness among the public about the value of human factors in their everyday lives.

Additional resources:

• Paper by Dr. Caldwell which discussed some of the issues mentioned in the episode:
  Caldwell, B. S. (2018, September). Considering the future of land grant ergonomics education. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting (Vol. 62, No. 1, pp. 359-363). Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications. (link)
• Paper on the importance of human factors in software design:
  Meister, D. (1992, October). Relevance of human factors to design of computer software. In [Proceedings] 1992 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (pp. 218-221). IEEE. (link)
• Fun fact: SIGCHI history page refers to the first CHI conference in 1982 as “Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems” in 1982.

Episode music:

The Happiest Side Of Science by MusicLFiles

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