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Registration Opens for NDIA 2023 Human Systems Conference

The U.S. National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) is hosting its 2023 Human Systems Conference in Arlington, Virginia, USA on 1-2 March 2023. This in-person conference will take place on the campus of George Mason University with the theme of “Human Systems Design: from Research to Practice”.

Conference Description:

The defense industry has seen a dramatic increase in technological advances in the areas of artificial intelligence and machine learning, wearable sensors, decision support, hybrid teaming, and more. With these advances, critical questions emerge about the role of the human in these sociotechnical systems. Understanding the fundamentals of human systems design is key to optimizing performance of new technology as well as the servicemen and servicewomen equipped with those technologies operating in real-time high-stakes decision making scenarios. As technology evolves, so do human performance dynamics. Research is required for understanding these new dynamics. So too, is an understanding of how those dynamics emerge during practical application, and their consequences. Human systems design is optimized by taking the insights from both research and practice.

This conference is one way by which the Human Systems community seeks to advance the field and optimize warfighters' capabilities through education, consultation, research, and collaboration.

Conference tracks

Although the final agenda is forthcoming, topics to be addressed fall into four tracks:

• Human Systems Advocacy & Metrics (HAS&M): HSI metrics and associated requirements that influence the system development cycle, and methods and metrics to manage and track HSM to support total “human + system” performance, as well as characterize its impact on life-cycle cost and mission success.

• Personalized Assessment, Education and Training (PAE&T): Current challenges and ongoing or future research efforts in areas like the science of learning, affective computing, content authoring tools, natural language dialogue, adaptive and interactive scenario-based training; persistent, affordable, integrated training; and leadership development. Training methods and technologies in terms of reduced cost and increased training complexity or in terms of using new technologies as a force multiplier.

• Protection, Sustainment and Warfighter Performance (PS&WP): Current challenges and ongoing or future efforts in areas such as research metrics for quantifying Warfighter physical performance in operational environments, the interaction of physical and cognitive stressors on Warfighter effectiveness, or mitigation of physical performance decrements through advanced systems and techniques that enhance resiliency.

• Systems Interface and Cognitive Processing (SI&CP): Current challenges and ongoing or future research efforts in areas including natural human-machine interaction and teaming, cognitive and neurological models, integration of artificial intelligence and human cognitive models, or trust in automation. Approaches that emphasize verification and validation (V&V) of resultant technologies against standards or requirements.

Learn more about the conference and agenda here

Register here. Join NDIA to receive a conference discount.