Online Educational Materials on Specific Topics

Human factors/ergonomics (HF/E) is a multidisciplinary field that comprises aspects of several areas of practice and research. The scope of disciplines involved is extensive, including industrial engineering, cognitive psychology, anatomy and physiology, and statistics, to name just a few.

In the practice of HF/E, the applications are just as diverse, and human factors specialists frequently need new resources and knowledge to add to their tool belt. There are ample resources for this additional information via textbooks, journals, conferences, short courses, and the Internet.

The following list was put together as a brief compilation of some of the readily accessible HF/E materials available online, categorized by topic. The topics were selected because they represent areas that HFES members identified as a need in the Education and Training Committee's 2003 membership needs survey.

Note that there are many more resources online, and this is by no means a comprehensive list! General use of online search engines can readily reveal additional specific topics with detailed information based on practitioners' immediate needs. This list does not include offerings from commercial entities. See the educational resources review criteria page.

Please contact HFES if you would like to suggest additions to this list.

HF/E Standards, Guidelines, and Principles

The HFES Web site has several links to standards.
The Department of Defense Human Factors Engineering technical advisory group has published a collection of handbooks, guides, and standards.

Wikipedia also has a good page on usability, including links to other resources, associations, and references.
Another good resource is the STC site on usability, which includes a wide range of related topics.

Environmental Design and Evaluation

Workplace Design

Task Analysis

Survey Construction

Statistical Methods