Advances in Human Performance And Cognitive Engineering Research The Science And Simulation of Human Performance

The Science and Simulation of Human Performance is divided into four sections. The first section of the book provides an introduction to the history and current status of human performance research, training, and assessment. This includes a comprehensive overview of how military scientists train and assess human performance. A second section provides critical theoretical, methodological, and specific disciplinary insights toward the development of standardized operational definitions, methods, and metrics. The objective is to support the gathering of datasets that are informative and useful to modeling and simulation. Specific content areas include human cognition, health and physiology, and social factors. This section concludes with a chapter that integrates these critical aspects of human performance within a single, neurochemical framework. A third section considers current and available techniques to support the analysis and simulation of human performance data. Chapters in this section provide critical analysis of existing models and offer specific recommendations to improve their relevance and predictive value. This section concludes with a chapter that identifies emergent themes from within the volume as a whole, offering specific conclusions and recommendations for how the current state of the art may be used to shape the state of the possible. The fourth and final section provides key information resources, including a comprehensive overview of human performance research as it is currently conducted in defense laboratories across all branches of the armed services. The book concludes with an overview of currently available human performance models and simulations. Contributors to this effort hope and anticipate that military and non-military scientists alike will recognize the importance of this effort to the U.S. military and to the scientific community in general.Ness, James W. is the author of 'Advances in Human Performance And Cognitive Engineering Research The Science And Simulation of Human Performance', published 2005 under ISBN 9780762311415 and ISBN 076231141X.