Human Systems Integration Seminar

Sunday - June 24 – FREE SEMINAR
Time: 0800-1700
IS 2007 Registration is not Required

Human Systems Integration (HSI) unites the 8 technical domains of human factors engineering, personnel, manpower, training, safety, occupational health, survivability, and habitability, to allow all human-related issues in system development to be addressed in an integrated manner. DoD Instruction 5000.2 requires an acquisition program manager to initiate an HSI program in order to optimize total system performance, minimize total ownership costs, and ensure that the system is built to accommodate the characteristics of the user population that will operate, maintain, and support the system.

effectiveness. Experience across the public and private sectors reinforces the need to address human capital requirements early and effectively. Societal trends for military and non-military development programs are affected by manpower restrictions (limits on the number of people that are required to operate, maintain, and support a system), and on personnel restrictions (the knowledge, skills, and abilities that are required of operators, maintainers, and support staff.) Longer-term risks associated with safety, occupational health, environmental concerns, and habitability must be considered during development in order to be addressed effectively. The concerns across all these domains must be addressed conjointly during system design and development.

The seminar presents principles of HSI and reviews issues and concerns of each of the domains, and explains how these activities across these separate areas should be integrated to improve system life-cycle costs related to personnel while also leading to improved system performance. The goals of the seminar are to introduce HSI concepts, principles, and activities that go beyond the individual domains of HSI, describe analysis and evaluation methods that serve multiple HSI domains, and promote the value of integrating the HSI domains versus addressing them separately.

Attendees will:

1. Understand the rationale for conducting an HSI program.
2. Become familiar with each of the HSI domains and the areas of common concern across domains.
3. Understand how to plan an HSI program.
4. Understand how to conduct the analyses that support the HSI program.
5. Understand HSI requirements, metrics, and evaluation methods.

The one-day seminar is taught by Dr. Dennis J. Folds of the Georgia Tech Research Institute in Atlanta.

Bio:
Dr. Dennis J. Folds is Principal Research Scientist and GTRI Fellow at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), where he heads the Human Systems Engineering Branch and serves as chair of Georgia Tech's Occupational Health and Safety committee. He is leading Human System Integration projects in support of the P-8(A) MMA, the Littoral Combat Ship Mine Warfare Module, and the Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) program. His research interests include human decision making, assessment of training effectiveness, advanced auditory displays, user-centered design methodologies. He is Chair of the Human Engineering Working Group the Royal Australian Navy's Project SEA 1411 (SH-2G(A)) and leads all human system engineering activities, including cockpit design and human engineering T&E. He was P.I. for a basic research program on training for rapid decision making, sponsored by the US Army Research Institute and DARPA. He served as P.I. for the Information Technology Technical Assistance and Training Center (ITTATC) at Georgia Tech, sponsored by the National Institutes for Disability and Rehabilitation Research. He directed the development of software tools to help designers and managers of advanced traffic management centers in design, staffing, and day-to-day operations. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Psychology from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1987.