Grand challenges for human factors and ergonomics

作者：Waldemar Karwowski, Gavriel Salvendy, Mica Robertson Endsley, William B. Rouse, Paul M. Salmon, Kay M. Stanney, Andrew Thatcher, Tony Andre, X. Jessie Yang, Hasan Ayaz, Ahmet Çakır, Vincent G. Duffy, Colin G. Drury, Qin Gao, Yinni Guo, Peter A. Hancock, William S. Marras, Pei‐Luen Patrick Rau, Ben D. Sawyer, Neville A. Stanton · 发表于：Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science · 年份：2025 · DOI：10.1080/1463922x.2024.2431336 · 被引用次数：12 · 研究领域：Ergonomics and Human Factors、Human-Automation Interaction and Safety、Occupational Health and Safety Research

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.