Activities of the Committee on Human Factors: October 1, 1980 - September 30, 1981

The Committee on Human Factors was established and held its first meeting in December 1980. The three principal accomplishments of the committee during the reporting period were: (a) identifying critical problems in human factors and formulating preliminary statements defining the nature of these problems and the basic research needed to alleviate these problems; (b) establishing membership and guidelines for a special working group on simulation; and (c) planning the conduct of a workshop on applied methodologies that will identify some methodologies suitable for presentation at a tutorial symposium and other methodologies deserving research support.