HFE Solutions are members of the DStan Help Desk, providing advice on Standards in the areas of ergonomics, human factors and training needs analysis: specifically Def Stan 00-25, Def Stan 00- 56, SSP 10, SSP11 and SSP 12.

HFE Solutions are valued members of the Haldane- Spearman Consortium. Our work with the consortium is research based; investigating the human factors aspects of usability in complex technologies.

This ESPRC and AHRB initiative was established to support research that makes connections between academics, industrialists and consumers.  It aims to promote the formation of new communities of design researchers, design practitioners and end-users of design; build a common reference framework and shared understanding of theoretical concepts, culture, languages and methods within different design communities and stimulate new ways of designing thinking that will meet the challenges of designing for 21^st Century society.

Ideal States was a year long EPSRC and AHRB research project funded through the Designing for the 21^st Century Initiative. It brought together the fields of design and healthcare and aimed to understand and question the fundamental assumptions and philosophies of each. Its objective was to find a way of working together that will allow improved collaboration between the two fields at a point in history where the demographic profile of the population is ageing and posing particular challenges for the future. The core research group included The Glasgow School of Art’s School of Design, The University of Glasgow’s Faculty of Medicine and HFE Solutions.  A funding application has been made to extend this work.

HFE Solutions is a core team member on the Network Enabled Capability for Close Combat (NEC4CC) consortium which is undertaking research for the Research Acquisition Organisation (RAO). The programme aims to define and implement an integrated solution to optimise the effectiveness of Close Combat capability by exploiting opportunities provided by NEC. It will address issues such as providing the right information, to the right people, at the right time.