The Human Systems Integration Division are offices and laboratories within the National Aeronautics and Space Administration,whose function is focused within investigation to application of new scientific knowledge relevant to human centred functioning in order to benefit the objectives of the NASA space progamme.The division seeks to advance human-centered design and operations of complex aerospace systems from experimentation relevant to human performance and human-automation interaction

Human performance technology

Human Performance Technology , also known as Human Performance Improvement , "uses a wide range of interventions that are drawn from many other disciplines, including total quality management, process improvement, behavioral psychology, instructional systems design, organizational development, and...

, to make improvements in the safety, efficiency and probability of success of missions.

Objectives

The strategic goals of the division are:

(i) the creation of a newly developed base of understanding concerning the elements involved primarily in human-machine system operation and interaction

"To advance our fundamental understanding of how people process information, make decisions and collaborate with human and machine systems."
(ii) the generation of solutions to aviation safety problems, and improvement in performance.

"To enhance aviation safety and performance by designing human-centered automation and interfaces, decision support tools, training, and team and organizational practices. "
(iii) to increase capabilities to further human presence in space.

"To extend human capabilities in space by advancing our knowledge of human performance during space missions and developing tools, technologies and countermeasures for safe and effective space operations."

Organization

The Division is comprised (May 16, 2011 information) of the following groupings:

• [Advanced Controls and Displays]+ [Airspace Operations Laboratory (AOL)]+ [Ames Flight Deck Display Research Group]+ [Automation Interaction Design and Evaluation Group]+[Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS)]+[Aviation Training Research Lab]
• [Cognition Lab]+ [Cognitive Performance in Aviation Operations and Training]
• [Distributed Team Decision Making]
• [Emergency and Abnormal Situations Study]
• [Flight Cognition]
• [Human-Centered Systems Lab (HCSL)] + [Human-Computer Interaction Group (HCI)]
• [Integrated Safety Data for Strategic Response (ISDSR) Group]+ [Intelligent Spacecraft Interface Systems (ISIS)]
• [Man Machine Integration Design and Analysis (MIDAS)]
• [Operational Based Vision Assessment]
• [Professional Pilot Training Lab]+ [Psychophysiological Research Facility]
• [Spatial Auditory Display Laboratory]
• [TH Division]
• [Vision Science and Technology]+ [Visuomotor Control]

History

(1960's) [Human rated five degrees of freedom simulator]

(1970's) [Aviation safety report]

(1980s) [Crew resource management and line-orientated flight training], [Human requirements for extended spaceflight]

(1990's) [Automation design],[System monitoring and System sharing]

(2000's) [Human factors for constellation]

Internal links

• for (five degrees of freedom simulator) goto Flight simulator
  Flight simulator
  A flight simulator is a device that artificially re-creates aircraft flight and various aspects of the flight environment. This includes the equations that govern how aircraft fly, how they react to applications of their controls and other aircraft systems, and how they react to the external...
  
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• Motion simulator
  Motion simulator
  A motion simulator or motion platform is a mechanism that encapsulates occupants and creates the effect/feelings of being in a moving vehicle...
  
  

• Decision making
  Decision making
  Decision making can be regarded as the mental processes resulting in the selection of a course of action among several alternative scenarios. Every decision making process produces a final choice. The output can be an action or an opinion of choice.- Overview :Human performance in decision terms...
  
  
• Decision analysis
  Decision analysis
  Decision analysis is the discipline comprising the philosophy, theory, methodology, and professional practice necessary to address important decisions in a formal manner...
  
  

• Human-machine interaction
  Human-machine interaction
  Human–machine Interaction is the interaction between machines and the persons who operate them. An old-fashioned term is is Man-machined Interaction - Related terms:...
  
  
• Human machine interface
• Human-machine system
  Human-machine system
  Human–machine system is a system in which the functions of a human operator and a machine are integrated. This term can also be used to emphasize the view of such a system as a single entity that interacts with external environment....
  
  

• Human adaptation to spaceflight
• Human spaceflight
  Human spaceflight
  Human spaceflight is spaceflight with humans on the spacecraft. When a spacecraft is manned, it can be piloted directly, as opposed to machine or robotic space probes and remotely-controlled satellites....
  
  

See also

• Decision support system
  Decision support system
  A decision support system is a computer-based information system that supports business or organizational decision-making activities. DSSs serve the management, operations, and planning levels of an organization and help to make decisions, which may be rapidly changing and not easily specified in...
  
  
• Decision theory
  Decision theory
  Decision theory in economics, psychology, philosophy, mathematics, and statistics is concerned with identifying the values, uncertainties and other issues relevant in a given decision, its rationality, and the resulting optimal decision...
  
  
• Decision tree
  Decision tree
  A decision tree is a decision support tool that uses a tree-like graph or model of decisions and their possible consequences, including chance event outcomes, resource costs, and utility. It is one way to display an algorithm. Decision trees are commonly used in operations research, specifically...
  
  

• National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
  National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
  The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics was a U.S. federal agency founded on March 3, 1915 to undertake, promote, and institutionalize aeronautical research. On October 1, 1958 the agency was dissolved, and its assets and personnel transferred to the newly created National Aeronautics and...
  
  
• Controlled Impact Demonstration
  Controlled Impact Demonstration
  The Controlled Impact Demonstration was a joint project between NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration aimed at acquiring data, as well as demonstrating and testing new technologies, with the intent of improving occupant crash survivability, by crashing a Boeing 720 aircraft...
  
  

Sources

National Aeronautics and Space Administration:Human Systems Integration Division-History (Curator: Phil So) retrieved 10:40(UTC) 24.10.2011