HVHF Sciences, LLC

11/10/2021

HVHF 3.0 Enables Human Flourishing and Elevates Performance Excellence by taking into consideration all dimensions of Human being: Mind-Body-Spirit-Social-Material.

From the most benign office worker, amateur to professional athlete, Innovator & Entrepreneur to mission critical performer from fire fighters, pilots, emergency medical professionals to military special operators.

Other practice areas are startups and entrepreneurship coaching (business models, market development and scaling, Innovation and Differentiation), technical team dynamics, sports & athletics and mentoring young professionals, including students.

** Pro Bono & Matching Philanthropic Donation Based **

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HVHF 1.0 & 2.0 (2011 - 2016)
HVHF Sciences 1.0 & 2.0 focused on understanding how humans perform – orient, observe, decide, act (situation awareness, cognition, naturalistic decision making, speech/motor acts) -- in a range of ecologies, from the professional world of high reliability organizations to the world of the consumer.

The core goals of HVHF Sciences is to deliver the following value to its clients:

1) Provide a scientific understanding of their general and critical operations by analyzing it through the application of cognitive, social, biological and ecological sciences.

2) Conceptualize, design and validate intuitive human-interfaces in products and systems by studying all facets of the human factor (cognitive, biological, social). E.g., portable and wearable communication and computing devices.

3) Design a robust and effective sociotechnical system to avoid catastrophic errors, enhance operator and system safety and reliability and minimize cost.

4) Deliver implementable solutions in the form of human-system design specifications, operational protocols and training.

05/06/2021

HVHF 2.0

Enabling Performance on the Edge of the Possible from the many lessons learned from High Velocity Human Factors 1.0 and the School of Knockout-Knocks.

Bridging the Personal & Professional ~

Building Mind-Body-Spiritual Fitness to fuel Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Engineering Excellence

Intrigued? Interested? If in the affirmative, then, let's chat...

08/13/2019

UX # Design #

By Evelyn Gosnell and Kristen Berman

03/17/2019

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Technical website for Boeing 737 pilots and engineers. Site includes news, system and operating notes, technical photographs, databases and related links.

05/16/2018

“"We don’t call 911 very often... But when we do, it’s super important to get it right.” Researchers from Microsoft, Simon Fraser University, and the University of Calgary ‏explore the future of video calling in emergency situations: https://aka.ms/Mc2rd7 "

The challenge isn’t that the underlying technology isn’t yet ready; it is. What isn’t yet clear is what unique benefits and challenges emergency video calling might bring.

04/30/2018

Surgeons perform better after the first operation of the day - especially if they repeat the same procedure on the next patient. So could VR help them prepare for surgery without actually doing an operation? 📻

Repeating the same operation helps surgeons do their best work •

04/25/2018

The calm actions of a police officer who did not open fire have prompted praise and astonishment.

04/19/2018

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A former flight attendant called out passengers for wearing their masks incorrectly.

04/03/2018

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Automation surprises in aviation continue to be a significant safety concern and the community’s search for effective strategies to mitigate them are ongoing. The literature has offered two fundamentally divergent directions, based on different ideas about the nature of cognition and collaboration...

03/02/2018

The read. Aerial wild land firefighting human factors and system safety challenges.
"THE INVALUABLE SERVICE OF AIR TANKERS"

By Jeff Marcus and Clint Crookshanks One enduring image of the fight against forest fires, like those that devastated California last year, is of a large airplane flying low and dropping red fire r…

02/18/2018

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In a previous article I discussed cognitive bias as it relates to flight operations. Although I just hinted at this in the previous article, let me be clear now: Fatigue will exacerbate all of the …