This Guide suggests methods for measuring human performance for scientific research and system test and evaluation. The information contained in this document is provided as guidance, not mandated as direction. This Guide should be considered during the planning, conduct, and analysis of human performance measurement activities. The objectives of this Guide are: (1) to foster human performance measurement (HPM) techniques that have proved to be effective; (2) to promote commonality across research projects and, thus, enable comparison of results across evaluations; and (3) to develop and use common HPM tools for data collection and data processing.

Note that this Guide does not include physiological measures. Such measures will be handled in a separate AIAA standard. Until then, the reader is referred to Martin and Venables (1980).