Human Systems
The rapid pace of technological development makes increasingly stringent demands on man’s ability to act and function in concert with advanced systems.
FOI is engaged in comprehensive research in the area of human-system interaction, including physiological factors and limitations.
Man is a natural component in most modern systems. FOI’s broad span of research in this field enables us to offer a unified picture of the solutions required to achieve well functioning systems. With the function and capability of the human element as a starting point, FOI’s research embraces human-system interaction, physiology, traumatology and acute medical care.
The research covers every aspect from mental work-loading, interface design for different operators and physiological loading in particular environments to the acute medical care required in cases of weapon-induced injury. The environments studied range from that of the diver underwater, through submarines, warships, vehicles and men on the ground, to the pilot’s flight environment.
FOI has comprehensive experience and resources where both experimental trials activities and theoretical simulation and modelling are concerned. These activities are conducted in close cooperation with the Armed Forces, the defence industry and other actors in the commercial sphere as well as with other research institutes, hospitals, universities and colleges both in Sweden and internationally.