HPI - Welcome

Welcome to the HPI website.

The Human Performance Institute was established in 1986 and approved by the Board of Regents as an institute within the University of Texas System. It is a research entity within the University of Texas at Arlington that integrates expertise and students from a variety of different departments within the university to address the complexities of human performance.

Our Mission

Our mission is to pursue basic and applied research in measurement, understanding (through development of models and the conduct of validation experiments), and enhancement of human performance.

This broad mission impacts work in fields ranging from human factors in the aerospace industry to medical rehabilitation,occupational medicine, gerontology, and sports medicine. In recent years, the scope of our research and affiliations has expanded naturally to encompass virtual reality and human-operator problems, cybernetics, training, and topics in automation and robotics.

Generally speaking, "human performance" pertains to a human system (or the combination of a human system and one or more artificial systems) attempting to accomplish a task. Viewed in these terms, human performance is pervasive. Most of HPI's research results are intended to be applicable in any circumstance involving humans and tasks.

Long-term Research Should Provide the Capability to Answer
Questions of the Following Type..

How should a device be optimally designed to help a person with a disability to communicate?
How does one determine when (or if) a worker can return to his/her job after an injury?
How does one determine when it is unsafe for an individual with an injury or disease to drive an automobile (in selected contexts)?
How does one determine the effectiveness of a new drug for multiple sclerosis (or any other neurologic disease that impairs performance)?
How should an important task be designed to insure that an astronaut executing an extravehicular activity can safely and successfully accomplish it?
Which human subsystems - and which aspect(s) of performance associated with them -should an athlete (or musician or surgeon) strive to improve in order to maximize utilization of time available for training and level of performance in their sport (or other skilled activity)?

Like our activities, this site will be dynamic. It will change both with respect to historical and educational material made available as well as new items that are added as developments continue. We have carried out a substantial number of projects that are generally connected via the central theme of our mission. Topics are presented here to varying depths depending on perceived importance, project maturity, as well as our state of progress in the ever-continuing process of website development.

Thank you for taking the time to visit our site to become familiar with our work for the first time or to get updated. Your comments are welcomed and appreciated.

George V. Kondraske, Ph.D.
Director
Professor, Electrical and Biomedical Engineering



	Welcome to the HPI website. The Human Performance Institute was established in 1986 and approved by the Board of Regents as an institute within the University of Texas System. It is a research entity within the University of Texas at Arlington that integrates expertise and students from a variety of different departments within the university to address the complexities of human performance.
Our Mission Our mission is to pursue basic and applied research in measurement, understanding (through development of models and the conduct of validation experiments), and enhancement of human performance. This broad mission impacts work in fields ranging from human factors in the aerospace industry to medical rehabilitation,occupational medicine, gerontology, and sports medicine. In recent years, the scope of our research and affiliations has expanded naturally to encompass virtual reality and human-operator problems, cybernetics, training, and topics in automation and robotics. Generally speaking, "human performance" pertains to a human system (or the combination of a human system and one or more artificial systems) attempting to accomplish a task. Viewed in these terms, human performance is pervasive. Most of HPI's research results are intended to be applicable in any circumstance involving humans and tasks. Long-term Research Should Provide the Capability to Answer Questions of the Following Type.. How should a device be optimally designed to help a person with a disability to communicate? How does one determine when (or if) a worker can return to his/her job after an injury? How does one determine when it is unsafe for an individual with an injury or disease to drive an automobile (in selected contexts)? How does one determine the effectiveness of a new drug for multiple sclerosis (or any other neurologic disease that impairs performance)? How should an important task be designed to insure that an astronaut executing an extravehicular activity can safely and successfully accomplish it? Which human subsystems - and which aspect(s) of performance associated with them -should an athlete (or musician or surgeon) strive to improve in order to maximize utilization of time available for training and level of performance in their sport (or other skilled activity)? Like our activities, this site will be dynamic. It will change both with respect to historical and educational material made available as well as new items that are added as developments continue. We have carried out a substantial number of projects that are generally connected via the central theme of our mission. Topics are presented here to varying depths depending on perceived importance, project maturity, as well as our state of progress in the ever-continuing process of website development. Thank you for taking the time to visit our site to become familiar with our work for the first time or to get updated. Your comments are welcomed and appreciated. George V. Kondraske, Ph.D. Director Professor, Electrical and Biomedical Engineering