RCS offers these services:

• Task analysis to define the behaviors, information needs, and performance criteria for human activities.
• Application of human factors to the design of products and equipment.
• Hazard and safety analyses.
• Information needs and optimal formats for displays, control panels, and computer screens.
• Analysis of visual requirements, optical characteristics, and perceptual effects of viewing conditions.
• Development of manuals for operation and maintenance of products and equipment.
• Development of safety and instruction labels (according to ANSI Guidelines).
• Ergonomic and usability evaluation of work stations, tools, products, and equipment.

Sample of past experience:

• Studies of human perception
• 15 years of aerospace industry R&D – major projects included
  
  
  • aircraft camouflage and visibility
  • driving simulator development
  • long duration, low event driving
  • alcohol interlock device evaluation
  • development of aids to detect chemical agents
  • participant on “blue ribbon” panel to develop a long range human factors research program for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
  • development of a handbook for design reviews of new US Navy aircraft
  • consultant to the Navy for the design of the F-18 flight simulator
  • factors that affect eyewitness identification
  • several patent disclosures; one patent awarded for a vision testing device
     
• Safety analysis for a new US Air Force generator
• Contributor to the Human Factors Engineering Guidelines and Preferred Practices for the Design of Medical Devices, ANSI/AAMI HE48-1993, Human Factors Design Process for Medical Devices, ANSI/AAMI HE74:2001, and current revisions
• Usability studies of commercial products
• Workload evaluation of an aircraft copilot console upgrade
• Ergonomic evaluation of work stations for product manufacturers
• Instructor of Ergonomics, Industrial Engineering, Statistics, and Psychology
• Committee member for the development of a major simulation facility at SUNY/Buffalo for the study of extreme event mitigation
• Quality Assurance Observer for the construction of a SUNY/Buffalo research building
• Design of control panels and monitor displays configurations for medical control system devices
• Operations and maintenance manuals for commercial products, including the design of safety labels to ANSI standards