The Board on Human-Systems Integration
History of the Board
The National Research Council’s Committee on Human Factors was established in 1980 at the request of the Army, Navy, and Air Force. It was renamed the Committee on Human-Systems Integration in recent years to better reflect the broader applicability of human factors issues, including non-military and health systems. Domains now include such areas as: human factors engineering, physical ergonomics, training, occupational health and safety, health care, product design, and macro-ergonomics. In 2010, after thirty years of outstanding work by its predecessors, the Board on Human-Systems Integration was established to continue the National Research Council’s tradition of addressing the broad set of human systems issues facing the Nation today.
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What We Do
The Board holds two meetings per year, during which members, sponsoring agency staff, and guests discuss current issues in human-systems integration, and hear presentations by invited researchers and policy makers. In addition, the Board offers the following menu of activities:
- Workshops and conferences
- Sessions at professional meetings
- Research and policy papers
- Study committees
- Interagency staff discussions
- Providing a formal and regular forum for sponsors to talk with each other and with a knowledgeable body of experts, i.e., arranging an objective and neutral sounding board for the sponsors
- Giving sustained attention to the existing science base and the accumulation of knowledge and experience with human-systems integration and related disciplines
- Placing the scientific knowledge concerning human-systems integration in a public policy framework to make it accessible to the policy community
- Assisting sponsors in developing their research agendas by identifying technical questions that need attention, new research approaches that are promising, and opportunities for technology transfer between agencies and programs
- Conducting public conferences and workshops with presentations by noted experts to raise awareness and identify critical technical and policy issues in the area of human-systems integration
- Selecting topics of current concern that warrant in-depth study by a panel of experts, separately contracted, that operates under the oversight of the Committee on Human-Systems Integration
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