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HFI DTC report list

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Data Sheets

• HFI DTC Overview
• Cost Justifying Human Factors Integration (HFI)
• Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) Integration tool
• Cognitive Work Analysis (CWA)
• Desktop Support Tool (DST)
• E-Learning Selection Toolkit
• Event Analysis of Systemic Teamwork (EAST)
• Human Factors Integration (HFI) in Trade-offs
• Hierarchical Task Analysis (HTA)
• Interactive Trauma Trainer ITT)
• Knowledge Skills Attitudes (KSA)
• Mobile Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition & Reconnaissance (ISTAR) Units
• Project Alchemy (the application of SE test beds to defence HF/HFI Procurement lifecycle)
• Rapid Assessment of Task and Context (RATaC)
• Reconfigurable Command, Control, Communications & Computers (C4) Test Bed
• Synthetic Environment (SE) Test Bed
• Workload, Error, Situation awareness, Teamwork & Time (WESTT)
• Technology Appropriateness Guidelines (TAG) Tool
• Ministry of Defence Acquisition Framework (MoDAF)
• The Cultural Decision Support Tool
• Serious Games

Booklets

• The Human View Handbook for MODAF - DRAFT Issue Two.
  If you have any feedback or comments on DRAFT Issue Two of the MODAF HV Handbook please e-mail Dr Anne Bruseburg.
• The People in Systems TLCM handbook
  The People in Systems handbook is aimed at all members of the MOD Unified Customer community and is divided into sections to support Capability planning, delivery and generation.
  Its purpose is to highlight the importance of identifying, assessing and mitigating ‘people-related risks’ in TLCM and to raise awareness of the opportunities for considering the human element within acquisition.
• 2008 HFI DTC Yearbook
  This booklet contains research highlights from the HFI DTC.
• Human Factors Guidelines for Interactive 3D and Games-Based Training Systems Design
• The Human View Handbook for MoDAF - Issue One
  Please note this has been superseded by Issue Two.
• HFI Process Booklet
  A guide to the Defence Human Factors Integration process for the procurement of better equipment and capability (please note this has been superseded by The People in Systems TLCM Handbook).
• Cost Arguments and Evidence for Human Factors Integration Booklet
  This booklet is aimed at both non-HF practitioners and HFI practitioners in need of presenting a business case for HFI.
• Cost-Benefit Analysis for Human Factors Integration: A Practical Guide
  The Human Factors Integration (HFI) Cost-Benefit Analysis guidance provides methodological aids for how to make the cost case for HFI for a specific project or programme, based on a risk analysis

HFI DTC Reports

C4i / NEC

• Human Factors Design & Evaluation Methods Review
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• Human Factors Design Methods Review
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• Human Error and Performance Database
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• Field Studies in the Emergency Services
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• Analysing C4i Activity: A Review of the Event Analysis of Systemic Teamwork (EAST) Methodology
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• EAST Methodology for Air Traffic Control
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• EAST Methodology for Railway Data: Railway Emergency Possession Scenario
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• EAST Methodology for Railway Data: Railway Hand Back Possession Scenario
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• EAST Methodology for Railway Data: Railway Possession Scenario
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• EAST Methodology for Railway Data: Railway Protection Scenario
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• Gold Command Wall Evaluation; EAST Analysis of Electronic, Radio and Paper Methods of Command and Control
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• System Performance Requirements Established from a Taxonomy for Command and Control
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• Report on C4i Study: Command Wall System versus Conventional Paper and Radio Based Techniques
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• Report on C4i Study: Using an Electronic C4i system to examine the effects of Information Source and Decay
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• Report on C4i Study: Brunel Command Wall System design Recommendations
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• User Specification for a Reconfigurable Silver Command Test-Bed for Experimental Studies into Network Enabled Capability
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• Silver Command Acceleration: Report on Laboratory and Field Studies
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• Generalising from Novices to Experts in Military Studies
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• Using Sociotechnical Theory to Explore the Organisational and Structural Foundations of NEC
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• A Review of Sociotechnical Systems Theory: A Classic Concept for New Command and Control Paradigms
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• Forms of Network Representation for Network Enabled Capability: Human Factors interpretation of Network Representations
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• An Exploratory Study into Remote and Co-Located Command Planning
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• Measuring Situation Awareness during Command and Control Activity: A Comparison of Measures Study
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• Human Performance Under Two Different Command and Control Paradigms
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• Social Network Analysis, Team Cohesion and Meaningfulness of Tasks: A Comparison Between Two Different Command and Control Paradigms
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• From Clansman to ComBAT: HFI Principles for NEC System Design
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• Mapping the Study of Complexity to Human Factors: An Initial Model
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• Application of WESTT to System Redesign
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• Beyond NEC
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• Developing Guidelines for Distributed Teamwork: Review of the Literature and the HFI DTC’s Distributed Teamwork Studies
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• Emerging Technologies for Distributed Teamwork
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• Realising CWA Designs within the Network Paradigm
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• Using the Decision-Ladder to add a Formative Element to Naturalistic Decision Making Research
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• Decision making training for synthetic environments: Using the decision ladder to extract specifications for synthetic environments design and evaluation
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• Identifying Information Requirements for Work Aid Design
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Training

• A Review of After Action Review Practice for Collective Training in the British Army
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• Delivering Optimal Training for Future Systems
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• Training decision making using serious games
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• Training decision making using serious games: Requirements analysis for decision making training
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• Literature Review on Skill Fade
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• Educational Requirements: Future Trends in Deployments and Technologies
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• E-Learning Project Management and Documentation Guidelines
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• E-Learning Instructional Design Guidelines
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• Initial / Junior Warfare Officer Performance Capture Tool: Research Milestone Summary
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Simulation & Games-Based Training Technologies

• Human Factors Guidelines for Interactive 3D and Games-Based Training Systems Design
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• Subsafe and Subrescue Video Clips
• Improvised Explosive Device (IED) Video Clip
• “Desktop” Minigun Trainer Video Clip
• Interactive Trauma Trainer (ITT) Video Clip
• Alchemy Video Clip

HFI Processes

• The Human View Handbook for MoDAF
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• Developing Human Factors Guidance for COTS Equipment Assessment
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• Barriers & Enablers to HFI Final Review and recommendations
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• Current and Future Use of SEs
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• Guidance for the Use of Synthetic Environments to Support Human Factors Integration
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• Use of Synthetic Environments to Support HFI Position Paper
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• Database on SEs and Software Tools to Support HFI
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• HFI Desktop Aid - Rationale and Framework
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• HFI - Managing Organisational Change
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• The Identification of Interdisciplinary Synergies: Lessons Learned for HFI from Other Human-Centered Design Approaches
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• Provision of a Synthetic environment to Support HFI
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• The Impact of Technology Insertion on Organisations
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• Technology Insertion Tools: A Feasibility Study
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• Technology Insertion Tools: A Feasibility Study
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• Modelling Human Factors using the Systems Modelling Language
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• The HFI Case: Short Summary Report
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• The HFI Case Concept: Guidance on Specifying, Tracking and Documenting Human Factors Integration Requirements, Acceptance Criteria and Evidence
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• Developing the HFI Social & Organisational Domain: Final Report
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HFI Tools, Testbeds and Trials

• Creating interoperability between the Hierarchical Task Analysis and the Cognitive Work Analysis Tools
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• Cognitive Task Analysis: Current Use and Practice in the UK Armed Forces and Elsewhere
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• Using Cognitive Work Analysis to Explore Activity Allocation within Military Domains
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• Informing Dynamic Allocation of Function: Applying Cognitive Work Analysis to the Design of Rapidly Reconfigurable Interfaces in Complex Networks
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• Hierarchical Task Analysis: Developments, Applications and Extensions
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• HTA: The Development and Use of Tools for Hierarchical Task Analysis in the UK Armed Forces and Elsewhere
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• HF Administrator Tool Evaluation
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• HFI DTC: Mission Planning Analysis - Summary and Conclusions
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• Rapid Assessment of Tasks and Context (RATaC): Methodological Development
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• Technology Appropriateness Guidelines (TAG) Tool
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Impact of Technology on Humans (ITH)

• Impact of Emerging Technology on Humans – Current Advice
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Multi-Level Activity

• Human Factors Interoperability within Multi-National/Multi-Level Operations Scoping Study
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• Analysis of multiagency intent: An example from the emergency services
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• Multi-Agency Operations: Cooperation During Flooding
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• Coordination between the Military and Civilian Organisations: Issues and Solutions
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• Common Operating Pictures and their Potential for Multi-agency Work
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HFI DTC Publications Outputs

Journal Papers

2008 / in press

• Human Views for MODAF as a Bridge between Human Factors Integration and Systems Engineering
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• Presenting the Value of Human Factors Integration: Guidance, Arguments and Evidence
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• WESTT (Workload, Error, Situational Awareness, Time and Teamwork): An Analytical Prototyping System for Command and Control
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• Seven Key Decision Factors for Selecting E-Learning
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• Using Cognitive Work Analysis to explore activity allocation within military domains
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• Applying Cognitive Work Analysis to the Design of Rapidly Reconfigurable Interfaces in Complex Networks
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• Scenario-based requirements capture for human factors integration
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• Improving HFI Within Systems Acquisition: Methods, Tools and Future Directions
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• What really is going on? Review of situation awareness models for individuals and teams
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• Representing situation awareness in collaborative systems: A case study in the energy distribution domain
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• Genotype and Phenotype Schema and their role in Distributed Situation Awareness in Collaborative Systems
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• Modelling of human alarm handling response times: a case study of the Ladbroke Grove rail accident in the UK
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• Development of a Generic Activities Model of Command and Control
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• Distributed Situation Awareness in an Airborne Warning and Control System: Application of a Novel Ergonomics Methodology
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• Where do we go from here? An Assessment of Navigation Performance Using a Compass versus a GPS Unit
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• An Evolutionary Approach to Network Enabled Capability
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2007

• Command and Control in Emergency Services Operations : A Social Network Analysis
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2006

• The Design of Complete Systems : Providing Human Factors Guidance for COTS Acquisition
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• Situation Awareness Measurement: A Review of Applicability for C4i Environments
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• Hierarchical task analysis: Developments, applications, and extensions
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• The Ergonomics of Command and Control
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• Distributed Situation Awareness in Dynamic Systems: Theoretical Development and Application of an Ergonomics Methodology
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• Event Analysis of Systemic Teamwork (EAST): A Novel Integration of Ergonomics Methods to Analyse C4i Activity
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• Analysing the role of communications technology in C4i scenarios: A distributed cognition approach
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2005

• Using Wireless Technology to Develop a Virtual Reality Command and Control Centre
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• Validating Task Analysis for Error Identification: Reliability and Validity of a Human Error Prediction Technique
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2004

• Command Modelling Languages and the Reduction of Display Fixation
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Conference Proceedings and Papers

2008 / in press

• Designing Human Computer Interfaces for Command and Control Environments
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• Applying the Human Views for MODAF to the conception of energy-saving work solution
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2007

• Human Factors Integration for MODAF: Needs and Solution Approaches
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• Instructional Environments - Characterising Training Requirements and Solutions to Maintain the Edge
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• The Development of a Cognitive Work Analysis Tool
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• Assessing the Transmission of Commanders Intent
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• Mental Workload in Command and Control Teams: Musings on the Outputs of EAST and WESTT
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• Using THE HTA TOOL for Agile Mission Planning
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2006

• Technology based training - making the correct choice
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• An Integrated Model for Learning Object Reuse
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• Distributed Situation Awareness in Command and Control: A Case Study in the Energy Distribution Domain
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• Experimental Studies in a Reconfigurable C4 Test-bed for Network Enabled Capability
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• Serious Gaming Technologies Support Human Factors Investigations of Advanced Interfaces for Semi-Autonomous Vehicles
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• Awareness – does the acronym “SA” still have any value?
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2005

• Cost-Justifying Human Factors Integration: Understanding the Value Added
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• Making a Comprehensive Business Case for Human Factors Integration: Approaches to Tracing the Intangible
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• Key Decision Factors for Selecting e-Learning within UK Defence
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• A Reconfigurable C4 Testbed for Experimental Studies into Network Enabled Capability
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• Capturing Cognitive Task Activities for Decision Making and Analysis
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2004

• Using Wireless Technology to Develop a Virtual Reality Command and Control Centre
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• The Role of the Abstraction Hierarchy in Team Performance
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• Developments in Command & Control, Training and Synthetic Environments
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• WESTT: Reconfigurable Human Factors Model for Network Enabled Capability
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Presentations

• Redefining Functional Requirements through Human Views for MODAF: An Application of Enterprise Architectures to ensure Human Factors Integration
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Newsletters

• Frontline issue 11
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• Frontline issue 10
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• Frontline issue 9
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• Frontline issue 8
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• Frontline issue 7
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• Frontline issue 6
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• Frontline issue 5
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• Frontline issue 4
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• Frontline issue 3
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• Frontline issue 2
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• Frontline issue 1
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Command and Control Seminar 2008

• Managing Multi-Agency Emergency Response
  Richard McMaster

• Human Factors Analysis of the Mission Planning System for the Apache Helicopter
  Dr Dan Jenkins and Paul Salmon

• Reconsidering the Network in Network Enabled Capability
  Dr Guy Walker

• Modelling Command and Control in WESTT
  Dr Robert Houghton

Training Seminar 2007

• Future Training Seminar Introduction
  David Morris (Aerosystems International)
• Trends and Challenges
  Andy Fawkes (DEAS)
• Decision Making Using Serious Games
  Don Harris (Cranfield University)
• Training Needs Analysis in Through Life Capability Management
  John Huddlestone (Cranfield University)
• Wearable Computers and Augmented Reality
  Chris Baber (University of Birmingham)

Symposium 2006

• HFI for Defence: Making a Difference in the Real World
• Workload, Error, Situation awareness, Time & Teamwork (WESTT) Tool 
  Chris Baber (University of Birmingham)
• The Future of HFI for IPTs
  Clare Borras (SEA)
• HFI - Does it Make a Difference? - Keynote
  Major General Andrew Figgures (Technical Director, DPA/DLO)
• E-Learning - What is the Correct Training Solution?
  John Huddlestone & Jonathan Pike (Cranfield University)
• Integrating Human Factors
  H Rowbotham (Technical Enabling Services Human Factors Group)
• Serious Games - The Future of Affordable, Distributable Defence Simulation
  Bob Stone (University of Birmingham)

Symposium 2004

• Overview of Human Factors Integration.
  Michael Goom (MBDA)
• Use of a Synthetic Environment in the Indirect Fire Precision Attack (IFPA) Assessment Phase.
  Roy Dymott (MBDA UK, Filton) & Steve Harmer (BAE SYSTEMS, Advanced Technology Centre, Filton)
• Quantifying the Impact of Investment in HFI Upon Equipment Acquisition
  Roger S Harvey (QinetiQ Centre for Human Sciences, Farnborough)
• A two Legged Stool Tips over - The Importance of HSI in Warfighting Capability
  Nancy Dolan (US Navy HSI Office/Acquisition Programs Branch)
• Brief on the HFI DTC Process improvement Cell
  Pam Newman (SEA)
• Training Issues in Current UK In-Service Military Equipment
  Jo Davies and George Ward (ESE Associates Ltd)
• HFI -Phoenix: a Case Study
  Charles Kirke (QinetiQ)
• HFI Case Studies - Comparisons and Conclusions Across Industries
  Chris Lowe (Human Engineering Limited)
• The Role of Synthetic and Virtual Environment Technologies in the HFI Process
  Bob Stone (University of Birmingham)

Database

• SE Review Database
  Contains data on a variety of SEs collected during a Synthetic Environments review

Other

• Serious Gaming Resource List
  A list of software products and modules that are available at very low cost or free of charge from the Web sites quoted.
• MAP-01-010
  Maritime Acquisition Publication No 01-010 Human Factors Integration (HFI) Management Guide (Formerly STGP 10)
• MAP-01-011
  Maritime Acquisition Publication No 01-011 Human Factors Integration (HFI) Technical Guide (Formerly STGP 11)

 

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