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Grand challenges for human factors and ergonomics
Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science, Vol.26(4), pp.361-456
2025
Abstract
Contemporary society faces a growing set of complex global issues representing significant human health, well-being, and sustainability threats. Human Factors and Ergonomics (HFE) has a critical role to play in responding to these issues; however, there remain a set of grand challenges that require resolution. This paper presents and discusses six grand challenges for HFE and related key research thrust areas for each of the challenges. The grand challenges are (1) Evolution in Societal Thinking; (2) Future of Human Work in Industry 5.0; (3) Climate Change and Sustainability; (4) Future of Education and Training; (5) Future of Personalized Health, and (6) Life, Technology, and the Metaverse. These grand challenges and key research thrust areas were derived by twenty HFE professionals who are the authors of this paper. The implications of these grand challenges for education, training, research, and implementation of HFE principles and methods for the benefit of humankind are discussed.
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- Title
- Grand challenges for human factors and ergonomics
- Authors
- Waldemar Karwowski (Corresponding Author) - University of Central FloridaGavriel Salvendy - University of Central FloridaMica Endsley - SA TechnologiesWilliam Rouse - Georgetown UniversityPaul Salmon - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Centre for Human Factors and Systems ScienceKay Stanney - Design InteractiveAndrew Thatcher - University of the WitwatersrandTony Andre - San Jose State UniversityJessie Yang - University of MichiganHasan Ayaz - Drexel UniversityAhmet Cakir - ERGONOMIC Institut für Arbeits- und Sozialforschung ForschungsgesellschaftVince Duffy - Purdue University West LafayetteColin Drury - University at Buffalo, State University of New YorkQin Gao - Tsinghua UniversityYinni Guo - GooglePeter Hancock - University of Central FloridaWilliam S. Marras - The Ohio State UniversityPatrick Rau - Tsinghua UniversityBen Sawyer - University of Central FloridaNeville Stanton - University of Southampton
- Publication details
- Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science, Vol.26(4), pp.361-456
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Date published
- 2025
- DOI
- 10.1080/1463922X.2024.2431336
- ISSN
- 1464-536X; 1463-922X
- Copyright note
- © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
- Organisation Unit
- Centre for Human Factors and Systems Science
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991122050202621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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