Human Factors

These training modules were compiled by the Human Factors Discipline Team (TDT). The discipline of Human Factors advances human-centered design and operations of complex aerospace systems through analysis, experimentation, and modeling of human capability and performance. Practice of the Human Factors discipline has made dramatic improvements in safety, efficiency, and mission success.

Sort

Human Factors Webcast Series 37

Lunar Lighting Workshop 11

Fundamental 6

Intermediate 21

Advanced 7

State of the Art 8

Analysis / Modeling and Simulation 7

Design 14

Environments 1

Lessons Learned 11

Operations 9

Other 5

Systems / Subsystems 1

Testing 1

Circadian Nadir 1

Accident Investigation 1

Accidents 1

Actiwatch 1

Acute Sleep Loss 1

Aerospace Medicine 1

Agentive Language 1

Air Traffic Control 1

Airline Pilots 1

Allocation Myth 1

Allocation of Tasks 1

Allowable Operational Time Window (AOTW) 1

Analysis 1

Analysis Tools 1

Applied Human Factors 1

Arm/Destruct Decisions 1

Assessment 3

Astronauts 1

Attribution Error 1

Automation 4

Automation Myth 1

Automation Transparency 1

Autonomous Vehicle Behavior 1

Aviation Design 1

Back Pain 1

Behavior 1

Biomechanical Modeling 1

Biomechanics 1

Blame 1

Caffeine 1

Cargo 1

Causal Factor 1

Chronic Sleep Loss 1

Circadian Pacemaker 1

Cognition 2

Cognitive Task Analysis 1

Collision Avoidance 1

Common Misperceptions of Human Performance 1

Communication 1

Compensation Myth 1

Complex Systems 5

Computational Modeling 2

Contingency Table 1

Coordinated Response Protocol (CRP) 1

Countermeasures 1

Creativity 1

Crew Health 1

Crew Performance 1

Crew Size 2

Crew Workload 1

Culture Change 1

Data Analytics 1

Decision Making 2

Deep Space Habitat (DSH) 1

Deep Space Science Vessel (DSSV) 1

Degree of Automation 1

Design 2

Design For Error 1

Design for Maintainability 1

Digital Classification Systems 1

Directability 1

Docking 1

Drone Case Study Example 1

Dynamic Control Systems 1

Earth-to-Orbit Vehicles 1

Engine Failure 1

Engine Icing 1

Ergonomics 1

Error Detection 1

Ethical Decision Making 1

Ethical Rules 1

Exercise Performance 1

Experiments 1

Extended Duty Workshifts 1

FAA Medical Standards 1

FOOQA 1

Failure 1

Failure Classification Schemes 1

Failure Response 1

False Perceptions 1

Fatigue 1

Fatigue Crack 1

Fault Tree 1

Flexecution Model 1

Flight Capabilities 1

Flight Deck Effects 1

Flight Interfaces 1

Flight Safety 1

Flight Surgeon 1

Fluid Automation 1

Forest Service 1

Framework 2

Future Operations 1

Gemini Missions 1

Group Think 1

Guidelines For Rule Development 1

HFE Analyses 1

Habitability 1

Habitat Design 1

Habitats 1

Hardware Design 1

Helios 522 Accident 1

High Speed Exceedance Example 1

Higher Level 1

Holistic View 1

Hollnagel 1

Human Adaptability 1

Human Behavior 3

Human Capabilities 1

Human Capabilities and Limitations 1

Human Centered Design 2

Human Error 2

Human Factors Considerations 1

Human Factors Design Principles 1

Human Factors Engineering (HEF) 1

Human Factors Implementation Team (HFIT) 1

Human Factors Techniques 1

Human Intervention and Outcome 1

Human Limitations 1

Human Modeling 1

Human Operators 1

Human Performance 3

Human Spaceflight 1

Human Systems Integration (HSI) 1

Human Vision 1

Human in the Loop Simulation 1

ISS 3

ISS Modules 1

ISS Payload 1

Ideas 1

Identifying Design Weaknesses 1

Incidents 1

Injury Risk 1

Injury Thresholds 1

Internal Loading 1

International Partners 1

Intuitive Design 1

Kinetics 1

Launch Facilities 1

Launch Operations 1

Leaders 1

Learning 1

Lessons Learned 1

Levels Of Automation Myth 1

Lighting 1

Linguistics 1

Local Lesson 1

Long Term Health 1

Lunar Lander 1

Lunar South Pole 1

Machine Learning (DT-MIL Algorithm) 1

Maintenance 1

Maintenance Error 1

Management of Non-Normals 1

Manpower 1

Mapping 1

Mars Lander 1

Mars Mission Design 1

Mars Mission History 1

Measurement 1

Medical Risk Factor Identification 1

Medical Screening 1

Medical Waivers 1

Meta-Analysis 1

Mission 1

Mitigations 1

Model of Monitoring 1

Modeling and Simulation 1

Monte Carlo 1

Multiple Disciplines 1

Natural Environments 1

Navigation 1

Nuclear Power 2

Observability 1

Off-Nominal 1

Office 1

Operational Volume 1

Operations 4

Operator Monitoring 1

Payload Design 1

Performance 3

Physiological Limits To Performance 1

Pilot And Traffic Controller Interviews 1

Pilot Failure Simulations 1

Pilot Interventions 1

Plant Observations 1

Posture 1

Predictability 1

Probabilistic Risk Assessment 1

Problem Solving 1

Procedure Analysis 1

Procedure Buffer Time (PBT) 1

Procedure Simulation 1

Procedure Use 1

Productive Safety 1

Project Factors 1

Promise Of Automation Vs. Reality 1

Protective Safety 1

Public Space 1

Qantas A380 1

Reaction Time 1

Real World Example (Phoenix Mars Lander New Horizons Iss, Short Haul Aviation, Solar Impulse) 1

Recommendations 1

Remotely Piloted 1

Research 2

Research Studies 1

Research Study 1

Resetting By Light 1

Resilience 2

Resilience Myth 1

Resillience 1

Resupply 1

Resupply Logistics 1

Risk 2

Risk Estimation 1

Risk Management 1

Risk Quantification 1

Root Cause 1

Safety 1

Safety Critical Range Data Display System (RDDS) 1

Safety Critical Systems 1

Safety I 1

Safety II 1

Safety Management 1

Savings Myth 1

Scenario 1

Screening 1

Self Sufficiency and Self Direction 1

Self-Assessment 1

Shift Schedule Planning 1

Shift Work 1

Shiny Objects Myth 1

Situation Awareness 1

Skills 1

Sleep Deprivation 1

Sleep Inertia 1

Space Environments 1

Space Exercise 1

Space Launch System (SLS) 1

Space Vehicle Design 1

Space Vehicles 1

Spacesuit Design 1

Standard Operating Procedures 1

Strategies 2

Strategies For Managing Fatigue 1

Strategies To Manage Circadian Desynchrony 1

Study Methods 1

Substitution Myth 1

Success Culture 1

System 1

System Design 1

System Evaluation 1

System Failure 1

System Satisfactory Survey 1

Systemic Causes 1

Systems Integration 1

Task Allocation 1

Task Performance 1

Taxonomy 2

Teamwork 1

Technology 1

Teleoperation 1

Theory Of Interdependence 1

Time-Sensitive 1

Time-on-Procedure(ToP) 1

Tombstone Safety 1

Traffic Control 1

Training 1

Trolley Problem 1

Un-Fitts List 1

Unanticipated Events 1

User Interface Design 1

Verification 1

Vertical Flight 1

Vibration 1

Viigilance 1

Virtual Reality (VR) 1

Visual Experience 1

Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) 1

Work As Done 1

Work As Imagined 1

Work System 1

Workload 1

Workload Myth 1

Workplace Incidents 1

HSI Lessons Learned 1

Andrew Chaikin 2

Asaf Degani 1

Brittany Mott 1

Charles Dischinger 2

Crista Vesel , MSc 1

Dr. Alan Hobbs 4

Dr. Beth Lewandowski 1

Dr. Bjorn Kruger 2

Dr. Charles Camarda 1

Dr. Chris Wickens 1

Dr. Cynthia Null 1

Dr. Daniel Wallace 1

Dr. Divya Chandra 1

Dr. Donna Dempsey 1

Dr. Dorrit Billman 1

Dr. Edwin Fasanella 1

Dr. Erin Flynn-Evans 1

Dr. Gregg Bendrick 1

Dr. Ivan Pupulidy 1

Dr. Jesse Leitner 1

Dr. Jon Holbrook 1

Dr. Lance Sherry 1

Dr. Leland Stone 1

Dr. Lorenz Prasch 1

Dr. Mary Kaiser 1

Dr. Randy Mumaw 1

Dr. Robert Hoffman 2

Dr. Robert Howard 2

Emily Patterson 1

Irene Gregory 1

Jenny Rudolph , PhD 1

Kaitlin Lostroscio 1

Lauren McIntyre 1

Martin Nijhof 1

Michael Jensen 2

Michal Ziso 1

Paul Schutte 2

Professor Ron McLeod 1

Robert Moreland 1

Ronald Daiker 1

Sean Schimelpfening 1

Tanya Andrews 2

Tzvetomir Blajev 1

Humans to Mars, But How Many? A Historical Review of Crew Size Determinations for Mars Missions

Andrew Chaikin

November 2024

Human Factors