human-factors engineering

[ hyoo-muhn-fak-terz en-juh-neer-ingor, often, yoo‐ ]

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noun

an applied science that coordinates the design of devices, systems, and physical working conditions with the capacities and requirements of the worker; ergonomics. : HFE

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Word History and Origins

Origin of human-factors engineering¹

An Americanism first recorded in 1930–35

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Example Sentences

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�� contemporary reports did not point out—though scholarship in human-factors engineering emphasized and a later essay in Vanity Fair brought to public attention—was that the pilots’ mistakes, some of them novice errors, may have been at least partly due to the automation.

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humane society Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority

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