Human Performance Optiminzation

Question 1

Components of Human Performance

Answer 1

• Physical:
  
  • Strength, agility, endurance, MSK resilience, and health
• Cognitive:
  
  • Mental acuity, intelligence, memory, and resilience
• Socioemotional:
  
  • aggression, commitment, morale, anxiety, motivation
• The big thing is Resilience:
  
  • resources to withstand, recover, and/or grow in the face of stressors & changing demands

Question 2

Optimizing performance

Answer 2

-applying knowledge, skills, technologies to improve & preserve capabilities of personnel to carry out tasks

Question 3

OODA Loop

Answer 3

• Observe, orient, decide, act
• Observe: collect data w/ senses
• Orient: analyze & synthesize data to form perspective
• Decide: determine course of action based on perspective
• Act: Physical playing out of decision
• Want to maximize speed of loop
  
  • agility favored over power
• Optimize:
  
  • Enhance intrinsic ability
  • Mitigate negative stressors

Question 4

Types of HPO

Answer 4

• Enhancement: pre-deployment
  
  • improve performance above baseline & beyond what would be expected under standard training/equipment
• Sustainment: deployment
  
  • keep performance @ baseline beyond time that would otherwise not be possible
• Restoration: post-deployment
  
  • return degraded performance back to baseline

Question 5

Tools for HPO

Answer 5

• Drugs
• Techniques: process to enhance attributes
• Machines: better human interface
• Genes: