Time to Think Human!

Think Human, the new exhibition to celebrate our 75th anniversary, is now open at the Museum of Making in Derby. The free display allows visitors to discover more about human factors with interactive exhibits, engaging installations and objects gathered from across industry and academia. The museum’s own collection also helps to highlight the breadth of topics covered by the profession, with links to human factors highlighted throughout the galleries.

The exhibition aims to help people understand more about ergonomics and human factors and inspire a new generation of practitioners. It also reveals some of the people behind the profession and the positive difference they’ve made.

Think Human opened on 27 September and will run until at least 22 December. Speaking at the launch night, CIEHF President Professor Mark Young said: “More than ever these days, ergonomics and human factors is about systems and this exhibition is as much about looking forward as looking back, thinking about the impact we can and should have on key issues facing society such as sustainability, health and wellbeing and the rise of artificial intelligence.

“Our world is increasingly facing challenges of complex systems, systems where everything is interrelated and it’s hard to anticipate from a given input what the output will be.

“People are at the heart of these systems and so ergonomists and human factors specialists are working in research and in practice to optimise not just the role of those people, but the effectiveness of that system as a whole.”

Find out more about the exhibition at the Museum of Making’s website and you can also read an article about Think Human by the exhibition team in the journal Ergonomics.