Human Factors

The article recommends two books by Zachary Wong, namely Personal Effectiveness in Project Management and Human Factors in Project Management. Those two books are valuable resources for improving personal effectiveness and leadership in project management. The book “Personal Effectiveness in Project Management” is divided into four modules that focus on Decision-Making, Motivation, Achievement, and Sustainability, providing practical tools and techniques to enhance the effectiveness of project managers.

Human factors, also known as ergonomics, is the study of how humans interact with systems, processes, and products. It examines the way humans perceive, think, and react in different situations and how these factors can be taken into account when designing products, environments, and systems. Human factors have a significant…

Imagine your job is to answer calls coming from four phones. The first phone is for calls coming from the managerial hierarchy: your manager, your manager’s manager, and the leader of the department you’re working with. The second phone is for calls coming from clients (prospective clients who want to…

Are you struggling to follow a routine? Do you always falter when someone asks,” What’s your skincare regime or diet habits”? Let us analyse and understand how human minds work through the COM-B Model of Behaviour change. Let’s break this down into simple terms, “ To incorporate a change in…

Congratulations, you just won an iPhone 69. Please continue reading to learn how to claim the prize. Technology has pervaded all aspects of life. As a tool, it has allowed us to live a better life. Unfortunately, sometimes we do not use it properly, leading us to live a worse…

Another weird, fascinating week in the world of generative AI deployments. While it is no great surprise that users are rapidly discovering accuracy and alignment issues with LLMs, I definitely wasn’t predicting that a Bing conversation would make an above-the-fold appearance on the front page of the New York Times. …

Memory is thought to work through a process that was theorized by American psychologists Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin. In this process, information is perceived by your senses and makes it into your sensory memory, which is immediate and fleeting. If you pay attention to information enough to commit it…

Putting a poetic spin on the five most essential tools to building the seamless user experience. — Human Factors. A major that I discovered during my first semester of college. Oh, how so much has changed since. When I first heard the term “human factors engineering”, I thought, well, that is just the most ambiguous, vague major I have ever heard of in my life. Worse than…

We just hosted a successful workshop on “Human Factors Network at SBB — How to establish and increase the human factors maturity in railway companies” at the 7th Human Factors Rail Conference online. We started by sharing our own learnings while establishing an internal interdisciplinary human factors network consisting of…