This page represents the beginning of an effort to present the history of human factors & ergonomics in a simple, straight forward manner.
| "The ninety Human Factors workers met to accomplish the organization of a national human factors organization. The need was recognized for better communication among the various human factors groups throughout the United States and Canada, and for a medium to disseminate problem-oriented information in the application of human factors research to engineering design." |
| --The original mission of the Society: from the minutes of the first national meeting and constitutional convention of the Human Factors Society of America, held in the Pompeian Room of the Mayo Hotel in Tulsa, Oklahoma on September 25, 1957. |
Human Factors and Ergonomics History On-Line
Dalene Shin's Proposed Outline
Presidential Address, Deborah A. Boehm-Davis, HFES '94
Dalene & Erik's Potential References
Definitions important to human factors & ergonomics