Center for Human Performance Research

Domain expertise. Scientific rigor.

Since 2003, CHPR has provided Human Factors (HF) engineering, systems engineering, interface design and evaluation (UX/UI), and analysis support services. From aerospace to healthcare to road transport, CHPR is helping to develop the tools, procedures and interfaces of the 21st century. With offices in the Netherlands and the USA, and strong ties to academia, R&D, and operational domains, CHPR operates as a global network of recognized experts that together offer domain expertise, scientific rigor, and commercial pragmatism.

Operational concept development
Cost-benefit and financial analysis
Systems architecture design
Automation and interface design, test and evaluation
Real time simulation and data analysis
Fast time computer modelling
Safety case assessment
Human reliability and workload analysis
Experimental and survey design
Expert witness testimony

Some recent work areas

Display concepts for Air Traffic Management (ATM)

Evaluating operational impact of radar clutter on current day displays, prototyping of future self-separation display aids, and designing control room displays for autonomous drone operations.

Drone operations in integrated airspace

Identifying functional requirements and potential new technologies to enable integration of drone flights in non-segregated airspace, including early prototype (TRL 2) demonstrations of advanced ground-based machine learning approaches to prediction and early warning of off-nominal drone trajectories.

ATM automation functions

Conducting performance-based assessment of a functional architecture for TCAS Resolution Advisory downlinks to ATC ground stations. Developing AI based conflict detection and resolution systems.

Some methods we use

CHPR uses a variety of methods to carry out work in the areas of

Interface design and evaluation
Safety assessment including risk analysis, FHA and HAZOP
Analytic modelling
Real time simulation
Workload assessment
Experimental design, data collection and statistical analysis
Focus group, interview and survey research
Training

CHPR uses a combination of off-the-shelf and self-developed software for:

Behavioral data logging and analysis
Task analysis
Focus group data analysis – including transcription and text analysis
Non-linear mathematical modelling – via artificial neural networks
Multi-criteria decision making, using the Analytic Hierarchy Process
General statistical analysis– descriptive and inferential statistics

Automation and autonomous systems

From road transport to air traffic to consumer products, the interaction between human and machine increasingly relies on advanced automation that can do the “thinking.” Our focus is how to engineer this interaction.

Machine learning

Extending traditional artificial intelligence (AI) methods with learning algorithms can aid machine prediction and classification. How do we ensure that humans understand, trust, and properly use such systems?

Human judgment and decision making

Why do experts sometimes only see what they expect to see, or make predictable diagnostic mistakes? Unpacking the decision making process is increasingly key to understanding how humans and machines will interact in the future.

Designing the transport system of the future

Advances in autonomous and on-demand transport promise a 21st century of self driving cars, flying cars, even passenger-carrying drones. It is critical that the technologies, concepts and procedures underlying such systems consider the strengths and weaknesses of the human-in-the-loop.

Neuro-ergonomics & Bio-cybernetics

Real time physiological measures can help us assess how an operator (be it a surgeon, a pilot, or a gamer) is performing. Such measures can also form the basis for Brain Computer Interfaces (BCIs) that can blur the line between human and machine.