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DEVELOPMENT OF A VOICE ASSISTANT FOR MISSION PLANNING

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Navy
Contract: N/A
Agency Tracking Number: 28941
Amount: $99,965.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: N/A
Solicitation Number: N/A
Timeline
Solicitation Year: N/A
Award Year: 1995
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): N/A
Award End Date (Contract End Date): N/A
Small Business Information
Gwynedd Office Park 716 N. Bethlehem Pk. Suite 30
Lower Gwynedd, PA 19002
United States
DUNS: N/A
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Floyd A. Glenn Iii, Ph.d.
 (215) 542-1400
Business Contact
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Research Institution
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Abstract

A Voice Assistant for Mission Planning (VAMP) is proposed as a user interface for the Navy's Tactical Air Mission Planning System (TAMPS). This interface will be applied first to a current version of TAMPS which is used only prior to the conduct of the mission, and later to a cockpit mission planning tool that can be used to adjust plans while in-flight. The interface design will be based on explicit principles for design of voice interfaces which will in turn employ a state-transition-network representation of the current TAMPS graphical user interface (GUI) and a cognitive task analysis of mission planning performance. The design process will also specify measurable design criteria and methods for estimation of the performance of cnadidate designs on these criteria. Whereas airborne use of voice will be beneficial in permitting "hands free" interaction with the planning system, the goals of the initial ground-based application will be to provide intelligent assistance in interface navigation and also to enable off-line dictation of preliminary mission specifications. Plans for the evolution of VAMP along with future versions of TAMPS are also provided.

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