Human Factors Expert Witness Services
Human Factors is a science that studies how people interact with or use all types of products, machines, equipment, and environments. Human Factors studies the affect of people’s mental, perceptual, and physical abilities and limitations on these interactions. Working with engineers and architects, human factors professionals design and build easy, efficient, and safe products, machines, and environments,.
Our experienced Human Factors expert witnesses have spent decades studying and researching topics such as: visual, auditory, and tactile perception; attention, learning, and memory; vigilance and fatigue; anthropometry, lifting and muscle strength; and risk perception. They have also spent many years in industry and government using this knowledge to research and design consumer and commercial products, roadway environments, work place safety and training programs, hearing conservation programs, and warnings and materials. Our human factors expert witnesses can write reports and give expert testimony in a court of law concerning human factors forensics.
In their forensic practices, our human factors experts testify with respect to many different topics such as:
- Attention and distraction
- Control / display design
- Expectancy and positive guidance
- Memory and knowledge
- Open and obvious
- Stress and fatigue
- Vision and hearing
- Workplace safety
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- Conspicuity
- Driver behavior and performance
- Lighting and noise levels
- Night vision
- Risk Perception
- Training and instructions
- Warning adequacy
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