PSE scientists present papers at HFES

Maia Cook and R. Dirk Beer presented papers at the recently concluded Human Factors and Ergonomics Society's 53rd Annual meeting in San Antonio, Texas.

Dr. Cook's paper addressed key challenges facing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operators needing to re-plan routes on-the-fly when situations change. View or download the paper here...

Dr. Beer's paper detailed a tool to aid rapidly assembled, distributed command and control teams in accessing each other's expertise. View or download the paper here...

Human view dynamics - The NATO approach

PSE Chief Engineer Holly Handley participated in a NATO Research & Technology Organization Panel to discuss and propose a cross-national Human View. The workshop panel evaluated emerging human view concepts, proposed a candidate human view construct, and developed an outline of a NATO Human View Architecture. Dr. Handley, along with co-author Robert Smillie of SPAWAR System Center, recently published guidelines on modeling and simulation of human centered systems based on the NATO panel outcomes in the Systems Engineering Journal.

Handley, HAH & Smillie, RJ (2010). Human View Dynamics – The NATO Approach. Systems Engineering, 13(1) p. 72-79

Abstract

A methodology was established to use the data captured in the NATO Human View to populate a simulation model; this provides a dynamic instantiation of the Human View data. The Improved Performance Research Integration Tool (IMPRINT), provided by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory was used as the simulation environment. By creating the Human View Dynamics, the data captured in the static products can be evaluated through tradeoff analysis and performance criteria. The demonstrated interoperability of the Human View static products and the IMPRINT dynamic modeling capability resulted in a mapping between the two domains. Additionally, the capability of the Integrated Performance Modeling Environment (IPME) used by Canada and the United Kingdom as a simulation environment was reviewed. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Syst Eng Received: 20 October 2008; Revised: 4 December 2008; Accepted: 13 January 2009