Mission
The Centre for Human Factors & Ergonomics has been set up to advance the following objectives:
Singapore, being a commercial and IT hub, has been very successful in attracting to our shores, world-class industrial partners and investors to set up R&D and business operations. In particular, MNCs such as Hewlett Packard, Honeywell, Nokia, and Philips, have been increasing their product design activities here. To support these exciting developments in innovative product design, a pool of human factors engineers is required. |
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Unfortunately, such human capital (formally trained human factors engineers) is scarce in Singapore. To counter the shortfall, the Centre for Human Factors & Ergonomics aims to develop and provide in-house training courses for professionals working in industry, and formal degree programmes for specialist knowledge in the discipline. The Centre for Human Factors & Ergonomics aims to work closely with commercial organisations, statutory boards & ministries, to undertake leading edge R&D collaboration programmes targeted at the development of state-of-the-art products and systems. |
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To serve as a resource and competence centre for industry to tap into expert human factors engineering knowledge. |
The Centre for Human Factors & Ergonomics aims to support Singapore industry in improving the design and effectiveness of user interfaces, workstations, work processes, and work environment. It aims to address the needs of a multi-structural, multi-cultural, highly mobile and ageing consumer and working population - trends that are not only visible in Singapore but worldwide. These issues must be considered as in an intensely competitive global market, the clarion call is to "think global and act local". The Centre for Human Factors & Ergonomics serves as a repository of information and a resource centre, with consultancy expertise and laboratory facilities that may be drawn upon to advance Singapore's capability to compete in the knowledge economy, and in the design and development of innovative services, products and systems. | |
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To position human factors engineering for the development and impact of new communication and information technologies |
| The pervasiveness of mass communication and new information technology in a modern society points to significant needs. As Singapore becomes a regional media hub, there is an urgent need to study on-going media, communication and information developments.In communication research, emphasis is placed on the development and impact of new communication technologies and communication within a multi-racial, multi-religious and multi-lingual context. On the information scene, research is carried out in a number of traditional and novel areas of Information Science and Technology, oriented towards developing advanced information retrieval systems which include information retrieval models and portals for libraries, education and archives. The Centre aims to support a practical approach to the design, development and evaluation of communication and information systems. | |