Abstract
Flipping through the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Directory and Yearbook, it quickly becomes apparent that Human Factors professionals work in a many different business sectors. These business sectors include military, commercial product development, and consulting services. Human factors experts are quite cognizant of the business sector in which they work, but they may have little to no knowledge or understanding of the work in other business sectors. In this discussion panel, experts from the business sectors of military, commercial product development, and consulting will discuss the similarities and differences of human factors in their business sectors. They will speak to the organizational factors, the time and cost factors, as well as end user population factors and how these factors impact how they work to develop systems. This discussion panel will foster greater insight and cooperation across business sectors through an understanding of similarities and differences.
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