Simulation, Modelling & Experimentation
IGOR uses simulation to make complex human and organisational behaviour visible—revealing interactions, pressures and emergent outcomes that cannot be understood by examining individual parts alone.
We combine human science, systems thinking and computational methods to:
- model human, social and organisational behaviour;
- explore emergent outcomes across repeated simulation runs;
- conduct human-in-the-loop experimentation;
- measure cognitive workload, fatigue and performance;
- test alternative organisational and system configurations;
- evaluate technologies under realistic operational conditions; and
- generate evidence for capability, design and investment decisions.
Experience
Our simulation and experimentation work has supported:
- Australian Defence Simulation Organisation
- Capability Development Group
- Headquarters Joint Operations Command
- Defence Science and Technology Organisation
- Australian Army
- Defence capability programs including LAND 75 and LAND 121
Selected work
Predictive organisational simulation
Modelling the structure, information flows and emergent behaviour of a military headquarters within a complex command-and-control system.
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Human and social systems modelling
Embedding sociological and anthropological theory within computational models to produce more credible representations of social behaviour.
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Cognitive workload modelling for tactical command systems
Modelling how information flow and system demands affected operator workload and performance across the LAND 75 Battle Management System and Battlefield Command Support System.
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Human performance in vehicle simulators
Testing how physical stress, motion and fatigue affect driver cognition, decision-making and technology use under simulated operational conditions.
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Established Australian Defence simulation capability
From 2008 to 2014, IGOR held successive Australian Commonwealth standing-offer panel appointments for simulation support services.
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Discuss a simulation challenge
We work with organisations seeking to understand how people, technologies and organisational systems will interact before decisions are committed in the real world.
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