ABSTRACT
Human factors engineering focuses on the design of products, places, and processes to fit human capabilities and confines. This chapter provides an introduction to a few topic areas ripe for human factors involvement in military education and training. It emphasizes how using a team approach integrating the skills of educators, the perspective of the students, and the expertise of human factors/ergonomics professionals can broaden the scope of analysis and result in an ever-improving quality of the teaching and learning processes. Numerous human factors tools and techniques exist, and several are useful for performing analysis and assessment in academic settings. They include interviews, focus groups, surveys, and usability testing; these of course are all supported by detailed literature reviews and applied research. Some human factors techniques employed in educational applications include job or workload analysis, flow charts, judgmental rating scales, training assessment, anthropometric and biomechanic analysis, videotaping, modeling, simulations, and participatory ergonomics.
