Integrating Micro Saint,HOS,and Anthropometric Models a New Tool

This paper discusses a US Army project to develop an advanced human performance modeling tool by combining the strengths of several well-known existing techniques. The first step is to integrate the human performance features of HOS (Human Operator Simulator) with Micro Saint, a task network modeling tool. The resulting tool, Micro Saint/HOS), will provide human factors and ergonomics professionals with a powerful tool that can be used to quantify and assess the impact of workstation design on the performance of the human operator and the ultimate performance of the system. What MS HOS will lack is the sophisticated graphical capabilities available in today's anthropometric modeling tools. The next step will be to link the dynamic models of human performance and graphically-based anthropometric models of the human.