Design for Usability

NASA has a number of excellent videos about Human Factors and Systems Engineering

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/slsd/about/divisions/hefd/project/human-systems-integration.html is the main page for NASA's HIS (Human Systems Integration) videos and presentation materials

Tools for Human Systems Engineering (19April2011)

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/slsd/about/divisions/hefd/project/hsi-videos-hsitools.html

Human System Engineering (5May2009)

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/slsd/about/divisions/hefd/project/hsi-videos-hse.html

Human Centered Design Process (17Dec2009)

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/slsd/about/divisions/hefd/project/hsi-videos-hcd.html

Here is a 5 minute clip from a longer presentation about Human System Integration into the Systems Engineering Life-cycle.

Here are the presentation slides

HSI in the SE lifecycle Intro Fitts 5MAY2009.pdf
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The original file is located at http://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/slsd/about/divisions/hefd/project/hsi-videos-hse.html

Here is a15 minute clip from a longer presentation about including Human Factors in the design process.

Here is the complete presentation

499162main_2009-1217_HSIKB-Human-Centered-Design-Process.pdf
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Original file located at http://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/slsd/about/divisions/hefd/project/hsi-videos-hcd.html

NASA's Human Systems Integration Division http://human-factors.arc.nasa.gov/index.php
has additional resources such as http://human-factors.arc.nasa.gov/web/humanfactors101/index.html
The stated purpose "of this website is to educate and inform the general public about some of the basic research areas encompassed by the discipline known as Human Factors research.”