Human Biomechanics and Human Factors Research in Healthcare
Human Biomechanics and Human Factors Research in Healthcare By Katie Collins Having a diversity of perspectives, educational backgrounds, and research experiences enhances creativity, problem-solving, and performance. Experts at Core Human Factors, A Rimkus Company (Core), have a wide variety of experiences within related fields like cognitive neuroscience, experimental psychology, computer science, biomedical engineering, and ergonomics. The collective experience of the consultants at Core provides a unique and robust human factors team that is well-equipped to address a variety of human factors research questions. I joined the Core team as a human factors consultant after more than a decade of human biomechanics research. A large part of my research involved assessing movement quality across a variety of activities and populations. For example, I’ve assessed walking, running, and landing biomechanics, and I’ve worked with collegiate athletes, adults and adolescents with knee p...