Five Tips for Medical Device Approval: FDA Human Factors Guidance
Healthcare Human Factors
Human factors engineering focuses on researching, designing, and evaluating products to make them useful, usable, desirable, and safe.
Healthcare human factors engineering emphasizes safety. In […]
FDA Medical Device Approval: Why You Should Hire a Human Factors Expert
Healthcare Human Factors Engineering
Human Factors Engineering focuses on designing products that match human capabilities and account for human limitations, thus making products easier to use, more effective, and safer. This is critical when designing medical […]
The Conference, Reimagined: HFES Virtual Healthcare Symposium
As an attendee of the 2020 International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare, as it was originally planned, you would have walked into a hotel ballroom in Toronto, Canada. You would […]
Remote Research: Conducting Research During COVID-19
Remote Research Overview
Fundamentally, remote research involves the researcher and participant being in two separate locations. As it stands right now, remote research is undoubtedly the safest option during the COVID-19 pandemic. Video meeting […]
In-Person Research Methods: Conducting Research During COVID-19
In-Person Research Overview
Many people are sensitive to visiting unfamiliar businesses right now due to fears of COVID-19 exposure. This can be disheartening to researchers, especially when businesses put in considerable time and effort […]
Virtual Tour of RC: What are you doing to stay productive working from home?
In the wake of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, many of us are finding ourselves working from home. It is an uncertain time, and a completely novel experience for all of us. Working remotely […]
Coronavirus: Tips for Converting to Remote Research
The COVID-19 pandemic has put a serious damper on the world of in-person usability research. For good reason, a huge portion of the U.S. population is under stay-at-home orders. […]
Usable Research Reports: Usability Studies
Actually fielding a usability study is the moment of truth. Staying true to project goals and completing a task analysis accomplishes a ton for the seeker of usable results, but those strategies quickly […]
Usable Research Reports: Using Task Analysis
When it comes to generating usable results, detail is key. What exactly did the users have trouble with? Broad statements like “5 out of 15 users did not successfully […]
Usable Research Reports: Formative vs. Validation
When it comes to producing usable results, consistently embracing the study’s goals is critical. A project’s findings are only as useful as the questions it strives to answer, so delivering results that answer […]
Usable Research Reports: Introduction
A goal of human-centered design is to create a product that is useful, usable, and desirable. When designing medical devices, it is important to ensure the system can be used safely, effectively, and […]
1-on-1 Interview: Rahul R. Rao, P.E., Medical Device Consultant
This month we are pleased to introduce Rahul Rao, Founder and CEO of Desert Platforms Medical Device Consultancy! He and his team are highly knowledgeable in the […]
Exploring a multi-method approach to examining self-infusion of hemophilia medication
Hemophilia (type A and B) is a hereditary bleeding disorder in which the blood’s ability to clot is compromised. Hemophilia is characterized by low levels of Factor VIII or Factor IX in the […]
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