Welcome to the Human Systems Laboratory archival web site! The Human Systems Laboratory is currently in a transition period from its role primarily within MIT AeroAstro to a role facilitating wider interaction with the Human Spaceflight research community in the Boston area and beyond. Any updates to the status of the lab and web site will be made here – try checking back in the fall for any new developments.
The content within this web site is being preserved for historical purposes to describing many of its activities and publications from its founding as the Man Vehicle Laboratory in 1962, through its evolution to the Human Systems Laboratory to approximately 2022.
The Human Systems Laboratory (HSL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a research group within the MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. HSL performs research to improve the understanding of human physiological and cognitive capabilities to optimize human-system effectiveness and to develop appropriate countermeasures and evidence-based engineering design criteria.