About
Our goal is to engender lively conversation concerning the field of human factors. This includes topical news items, academic publications, and historical interest. Your blog moderators are Richard Pak and Anne Collins McLaughlin. Richard is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Clemson University and Anne is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at North Carolina State University.
They both received their PhDs in engineering psychology (human factors) at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
By the way, human factors is known by many names, such as:
- Applied cognitive psychology
- Engineering psychology
- Applied psychology
- Usability
- Cognitive ergonomics
- …
