“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 ...

Human factors is an applied field of study at the crossroads of psychology, engineering, and computing that examines human abilities, limitations, behaviors, and processes in order to inform ...

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 worldwide provider of forensic engineering and technical consulting services, today announced the acquisition of Core Human ...

The U.S. FDA recently posted the regulation for software used to derive vital signs from optical camera images thanks to a successful de novo petition by Oxford, U.K.-based Oxehealth Ltd., a ...

The wheels of medical device regulation turn slowly at times. But just like The Little Engine That Could, it usually reaches its destination eventually. One of the slowest moving regulations was FDA's ...

The simple truth is that human factors and usability aren’t just side-lined design considerations anymore; they’re business imperatives. Human Factors (HF) is no longer optional; it’s a strategic ...

Humans are great at solving certain types of problems. Machines are better at solving others. Tomorrow needs integrators who understand how humans use, interact with, and think and feel about ...

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 ...

KATY, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BlueRidge Life Sciences (“BlueRidge”), a leading life sciences consulting and services platform and a portfolio company of Renovus Capital Partners, today announced the ...

Automation transforms packaging operations, but people still configure systems, interpret data, resolve faults, and drive improvement.