This program supports research on high-order cognitive processes that are responsible for human performance on complex problem solving and decision making tasks.The overall objective is to understand these processes by developing and empirically testing mathematical or computational models of human attention, memory, categorization, reasoning, problem solving, learning and motivation, and decision making.The study of these topics in conditions that involve risk and uncertainty, high workloads, sustained operations, stress, or fatigue is encouraged.The Air Force is especially interested in how humans adapt to information-rich environments that are uncertain, dynamically changing, and often adversarial in nature, and gain knowledge and expertise to make decisions with effectiveness and efficiency; as well as how deviations of human behavior in certain situations from optimality and rational analysis can be accounted for and exploited.
Human Research and Engineering
Agency:Department of the Army
Number:W911NF-07-R-0001-02
Deadline:This program is open through 30 September 2011
The Human Research and Engineering Directorate (HRED) plans, manages, and conducts a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary program of scientific research directed toward defining human performance in perceptual, cognitive, and psychomotor domains.HRED research provides the scientific foundations for militarily relevant databases on human performance and associations among enhancers, distracters, and stressors, which affect that performance.Those data and associations are then embedded in modeling and simulation tools, which in turn serve to guide optimal design of human-system interaction in battlefield environments.
