Seeing risk before it happens in medical device development

About the guide

Medical devices are used in complex environments where usability challenges can lead to use-related risks. Understanding how users interact with interfaces is critical to improving safety and performance. 

This piece explores how eye tracking provides objective insight into user behavior, helping teams identify risks earlier and strengthen human factors work. 

Key topics covered 

You’ll learn how eye tracking supports usability engineering and risk reduction throughout the medical device development process. 

• How eye tracking reveals what users focus on and what they miss 

• Where eye tracking fits in concept testing, formative usability testing, and validation 

• How to identify potential use-related risks linked to interface design 

• Real-world examples from clinical and pharmaceutical environments 

• Best practices for integrating eye tracking into human factors studies 

Who should read this  

Human factors engineers, UX researchers, usability engineers, regulatory and risk management professionals, medical device product teams or similar.