Human Systems Integration Division

Humans are arguably the most critical element in the safety, reliability, and performance of complex systems. Our highly adaptive problem-solving capabilities create resilient operations across aerospace applications, especially with the advent of increasingly intelligent software and hardware systems. Advances in machine learning, adaptive automation, advanced display technologies, and information accessibility create new challenges for human performance and new opportunities for human-automation teaming.

In aeronautics, humans are the backbone of a national aviation system that must handle growing consumer demands. In space, long-duration exploration missions will require revolutionary changes in the roles of the astronauts and mission controllers to support autonomous operations. For both aeronautics and space, the design of hardware and software systems must address the need for safe, efficient and cost-effective operations, both in-flight and on the ground.

The Human Systems Integration Division is creating and applying a new understanding of how individuals and teams assimilate and act on information in pursuit of goals critical to the success of NASA missions.

- To enhance aviation safety and performance for manned and unmanned aerial systems by designing human-centered automation, decision support tools, evaluation techniques, and organizational practices.

- To enable functional human-autonomy teaming through the design and development of increasingly intelligent systems and augmentative technologies.

- To enable lunar and deep space exploration missions by advancing our knowledge of human performance in the challenging space environments and developing technologies for effective, safe, increasingly autonomous astronaut operations.

The Division comprises three research areas:

- Human-Machine Interaction. The Human-Machine Interaction Group contributes to the development of measurably better NASA software through careful application of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) methods. The group follows an iterative process that consists of user research, interaction design, software development, and usability evaluation. This approach enables deployment and integration of mission software, with the right functionality and user interfaces, for scientists and engineers on some of NASA’s largest programs.

- Human Performance. The Human Performance Group performs research and technology development to enhance health, productivity and safety in aerospace environments. The group develops advanced interfaces, human performance models, performance monitoring tools, and countermeasures that mitigate performance deficits. The group includes labs that focus on advanced multi-modal interfaces, auditory displays, performance modeling, psychophysiology, telerobotics, vibration impacts, gaze tracking, virtual environments, vision science, and visuomotor control.

- Integration and Training. The Integration and Training Group is committed to improving the efficiency and safety of the Air Transportation System, with emphasis on mid-term and long-term requirements. This group develops and evaluates methods drawn from human factors and related disciplines for the integration of humans as intrinsic to the air transportation system as a whole. The group includes full-mission laboratories associated with air traffic management, flight deck procedures, ground procedures, and surface operations. It also includes labs dedicated to complex systems design, fatigue countermeasures, personnel training, human-automation teaming, and unmanned aerial systems.

The Division comprises the following research laboratories:[2]

- 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)

- Emergency and Abnormal Situations Study

- Flight Cognition Laboratory

- Flight Operations Development Laboratory (FODL)

- Human-Centered Systems Laboratory (HCSL)

- Human-Computer Interaction Group (HCI)

- Human Vibration Laboratory

- Man Machine Integration Design and Analysis (MIDAS)

- Ocular Imaging Laboratory

- Psychophysiology Research Laboratory

- Vision Science and Technology

- Visuomotor Control Laboratory

- 1960s: Human-rated five degrees of freedom simulator

- 1970s: Aviation Safety Reporting System

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

- 1990s: Automation design, Aviation safety monitoring and modeling

- 2000s: Human factors for Constellation

- 2010s: Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), Human-computer interaction (HCI), NextGen Air Transportation Systems.

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• Controlled Impact Demonstration
• Decision making
• Decision analysis
• Decision support system
• Decision theory
• Decision tree
• Effect of spaceflight on the human body
• Human-machine interaction
• Human machine interface
• Human-machine system
• Human spaceflight
• Motion simulator
• National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics

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