Findings
The Library of Human Factors Resources compiles external documents related to human factors, human-centered design, and usability in the context of Digital Health Technologies (DHTs), especially sensor-based DHTs (sDHTs). The resources in the library are categorized by usability validation activity:
Use-related risk assessment (topics include user tasks, use-errors, use-related hazards, and risk mitigation).
Design considerations (topics relate to product design).
Formative evaluation (topics related to usability evaluation of a prototype product).
Summative evaluation (topics related to usability evaluation of a final-version or marketed product).
Recommendations
The page recommends that users, developers, and evaluators utilize the library’s interactive index to find relevant documents to their DHT:
Use the Search by Activity tab to filter by one of the usability validation activities listed above.
Use the human factors topic column to further narrow the search.
Review the document name, issuing body, and product of focus columns to identify the most relevant document.
Click the hyperlink to access the selected document, then use the information in the relevant sections column to locate the specific topics of interest.
Regulatory Considerations
The library is a collection of resources for accelerating sDHT adoption, and it specifically includes documents like regulatory guidance and industry standards. This emphasizes the importance of understanding and applying human factors principles for validation and achieving regulatory acceptance for sDHTs.