Integrated Performance Modeling Environment - simulating human-system performance

Abstract

The British Centre for Human Sciences and Micro Analysis and Design Inc. have collaborated to develop a more complete environment for modeling human performance. The Integrated Performance Modeling Environment (IPME) integrates and synthesizes a base of international human performance modeling technologies evolved over the past ten years into a single modeling environment. The IPME has provided the British Government a means to determine cost-effective balances between human and equipment contributions to future military system performance for use in Concept, Operations Analysis (OA), and Balance of Investment studies. Their research approach has been to develop and evaluate a research methodology designed to provide controlled progression through a cycle of human performance modeling, prediction, and model verification and utilization in both synthetic and operational environments. In this paper, we discuss the IPME architecture and human performance modeling paradigm.