Mission Statement

Virginia Tech's human factors and ergonomics program is internationally recognized as one of the premier venues for human factors and ergonomics education and research. At Virginia Tech, the Human Factors Engineering and Ergonomics Center (HFEEC) is the focal point for human factors engineering and ergonomics research.

Collectively, the researchers are concerned with analyses and empirical research leading to designing jobs, machines, operations, and work environments to support human behavioral and physical capabilities and limitations. Human performance knowledge is applied to the design or modification of products, equipment (e.g. tools, machines, vehicles, air-crafts, and computers) and interfaces, and new experimental data is generated for equipment design, usability, performance improvement and user health and safety.

Vision Statement

The HFEEC is the premier research institution that has the capability to provide the breath of human factors engineering and ergonomics basic and applied research and continuing education through disciplinary and multi-disciplinary projects.

Organization

The Center is a consortium of several research laboratories: Assessment and Cognitive Ergonomics, Auditory Systems Laboratory, Displays and Controls Laboratory, Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, Industrial Ergonomics and Biomechanics Laboratory, Macroergonomics and Group Decision Systems Laboratory, Locomotion Research Laboratory, Safety Engineering, and the Vehicle and Aircraft Research Simulation Laboratory. Faculty and graduate researchers serve research sponsors in the federal, industrial, academic and military sectors.

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