title: Rationale for a model of human systems integration: the need of a theoretical framework.
abstract: Human systems integration (HSI) involves augmented human design with the objectives of augmenting human capabilities and improving human performance using behavioral technologies. The fundamental matter of human systems integration and augmented human design is the organization and the nature of interactions that couple physiological systems, humans- and engineered systems, artifacts. By this definition, augmented human consists of interactive artefacts linked to physiological systems. This paper focuses on the rationale of a HSI model based on specific experiments (comparison of dynamical sensorimotor integration and motor performances in real and virtual environments) that confirm the hypothesis of functional interaction in the framework of Chauvet's mathematical theory of integrative physiology (MTIP). Epistemological constraints for HSI and the role of MTIP are briefly discussed in this context.
authors.affiliation: ICN -- LORIA INRIA, Artem Augmented Human Project, Campus Scientifique -- BP 239, 54506 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy Cedex, France. didier.fass@loria.fr
authors.forename: Didier
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Fass
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D005246:Feedback / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016571:Neural Networks, Computer; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology; D018511:Systems Integration; D013598:Systems Theory; D014584:User-Computer Interface