Human System Integration is a multidisciplinary field of study that includes:
- Human factors engineering
- System design
- Human performance
Our HSI capabilities and methods ensure the human is considered an essential part of total system performance in each phase of system development. Our methods are founded on human factors research, principles, guidelines, standards, and best practices. Our practitioners employ proven scientific processes, tools, and products to support concept development, user-centered design, and operationally-based test and evaluation.
Technical work is coordinated with the overall needs of the system engineering process to facilitate the design of systems that are compatible with human capabilities and limitations. Incorporating HSI enhances usability, reduces error, optimizes workload, improves decision-making, mitigates safety risks, and increases ROI.
HSI technical services include:
- Expert human factors analyses of software, hardware, workflow, and workspaces
- User needs analysis and requirement definition
- Cognitive task and function analyses
- User working group facilitation for design and testing
- Concept research, evaluation, and validation
- Usability testing
- Operational utility and human performance assessments
- Advanced user interface design
Projects
The Mobile Meteorological Facility (Replacement) Next Generation (METMF(R) NEXGEN) is a USMC mobile tactical meteorological system designed in a sheltered HMMWV in support of the Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF).
The challenges facing the intelligence community have been studied extensively since 9/11. In support of IARPA’s A-SpaceX program, PSE developed a concept prototype of an Analyst’s Work Desk (A-Desk) to serve as a physical and brainstorming “sandbox” for conceiving, testing, and evaluating new technologies and CONOPs.
