Human factors analysis is crucial to developing useful applications. The decision maker’s needs and requirements must be met in order to achieve a tool’s objectives.

AlphaTRAC’s approach to every AlphaACT application and decision aid is to involve the end user extensively during the design process, in order to create a user-centered design that will work in the crisis environment for which the application is intended. Human factors analysis is also central to the evaluation of a tool’s usability and effectiveness that takes place prior to its implementation and roll out.