HSII-SB™

We keep asking what's wrong with the human. Instead of investigating the crime scene.

Technology advances. Institutions modernize. Processes multiply. We build bigger, faster, smarter systems and call it progress.

And somewhere in the middle of all that innovation, a human being is holding the whole damn thing together.

With workarounds nobody documented. Responsibilities nobody assigned. Burdens nobody measured. And failures nobody investigated because, technically, the system was still working.

Welcome to HSII-SB™ — Human Systems Integration & Infrastructure: Society's Backbone™, an emerging interdisciplinary field of study developed by Misty Mae Durfee, M.S.

Rooted in Human Systems Integration and drawing from systems engineering, psychology, human factors, organizational behavior, governance, and infrastructure studies, HSII-SB investigates the relationship between the systems we build and the humans expected to survive, operate, and sustain them.

We study what happens between design and reality. Between policy and practice. Between what a system claims to do and what it actually requires of the people inside it.

We examine invisible operational friction, institutional failure, human adaptation, accountability, and the consequences of allowing systems to evolve without understanding what they are doing to the humans who carry them.

Because a system can be functioning without being operationally sound.
A system that consumes the very thing it exists for is not functioning. It is failing. By design.

This is research. This is field building. And we're asking different questions. We want to hear yours.

What can we learn? Together.

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Published Research

• The Gravity of Reality: A Conceptual Architecture for Conscious Human-System Evolution. The concept paper for my doctoral thesis. View on Zenodo
• The Law of Continuity & Care™ View on Zenodo