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HSI Methods

Methods are the processes research and development teams follow to create tools for operators. They typically follow three phases.

Research--Learn about rail operations, how operators do their work, what goals they need to accomplish and what gets in their way. Requirements this phase...

HSI Bibliography

Human Factors (HF)/Human Systems Integration (HSI) Literature and websites Karwowski, W. (2012). A review of human factors challenges of complex adaptive systems: Discovering and understanding chaos in human performance. Human Factors, 54(6), 983-995. doi:10.1177/0018720812467459...

HSI Resources: Tools

Eye Tracking What is eye tracking?

Eye tracking is the process of capturing what a person is looking at, or the direction where he/she is looking, using sensors mounted on a nearby work surface or a head harness (as the illustration at right shows).

 How is eye...

Displays

Human Factors Design Guidelines for Multifunction Displays by Mejdal, McCauley, & Beringer (2001) provides a series of human factors guidelines for the design of multifunction displays including issues of attention and distraction. It provides general principles and...

Road

Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) HSI Guidelines and Resources

Human Factors Guidelines for Road Systems, 2nd Ed, provides human factors principles and guidelines for use by highway designers, traffic engineers, and other highway safety practitioners to support operational...