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Human Factors and Ergonomics

Personnel

Academic Staff
Emeritus Professor Tom Triggs
Dr. Jim Phillips

Graduate Students
Lauren Saling
Mary O'Hare

Research Activities

Human Factors and Ergonomics are disciplines devoted to an understanding of the relationships between humans and technology. This is an interdisciplinary applied area that seeks to understand the human factors that apply to the design of systems and devices of all kinds, and to apply that knowledge to achieve compatibility in the design of interactive systems of people, machines, and environments to ensure their effectiveness, safety, and ease of performance. The term arises from engineers' interest in the human factors governing the efficiency of the operator within a human-machine system.

Collaborations

  • Anaesthesia Simulation Centre
  • DSTO/Aeronautical and Maritime Research Laboratory
  • Monash University Accident Research Centre
  • Victorian Forensic Science Centre