The Board on Human-Systems Integration (BOHSI) brings together experts to improve understanding of how people and organizational systems interact with technology. It identifies critical issues in ...

In April 1991 Business Week ran a cover story entitled, “I Can’t Work This ?#!!@ Thing,” about the difficulties many people have with consumer products, such as cell phones and VCRs. Today, more than ...

Interactive systems should not only model user behaviour. They should also model the reliability of their own interpretations ...

The Human and Sociotechnical Systems Research (HSSR) Program at NSI advances the scientific study and engineering of people interacting with technology. We design and evaluate systems that are ...

While it is easy to think of weapons when you think of military systems, truly, the heart system of every military is its people. The focus of the U.S. Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory’s Human ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

This Collection provides updated research from the Human System Risk Management and Knowledge Graphs for Human Spaceflight Collection. Human spaceflight is a challenging domain that requires a broad ...

Co-founder and Chief Scientist, Hesperos, Inc., Founding Director of the NanoScience Technology Center, Professor of Nanoscience Technology, and Electrical Engineering at the University of Central ...

Sometimes, it feels like we straddle the fence between simplicity and complexity. At times, a reductionist perspective helps with everything from defining perspective to granular decision-making. Yet, ...

When the Human Genome Project mapped and sequenced the entire set of DNA instructions in a human cell—a 13-year, $2.7 billion global endeavor that completed in 2003—it produced one of humanity’s ...