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CHI Systems proposes to develop and exercise a methodology that will enable pilot anthropometry and eye positioning data to be used to optimize the selection and placement of electronic displays in the E-2C cockpit. In Phase I we will (1) define electronic information display options and human factors issues that impact display selection and placement, (2) identify E-2C critical pilot tasks that i ...

Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) is rapidly becoming a core technology for interactive training, system development and evaluation, and strategy/tactics evaluation. Future DIS applications need the ability to flexibly combine crewed simulators, instrumented live-fire system, and automated surrogate players. Current technology, however, is inadequate for generating surrogate playrs with the ...

Automated Patient Records (APRs) have recently been cited as a critical emerging technologyin independent reports from the Institute of Medicine and the General Accounting Office. In the wakeof recent research successes, the first generation of commercial APR systems has emerged.However,both research and commercial APR developments so far have been technology-driven, focusing primarilyon specific ...

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 exp ...

COMPUTERIZATION OF WORK, PARTICULARLY INFORMATION-BASED WORK WHICH HAS BEEN TRADITIONALLY PERFORMED BY MANUAL METHODS, HAS CREATED MANY PROBLEMS FOR NEW COMPUTER USERS. AS COMPUTER SYSTEMS GROW MORE COMPLEX, THEIR HUMAN USERS HAVE INCREASING DIFFICULTY IN SUCCESSFULLY OR EFFICIENTLY APPLYING THE UNDERLYING SYSTEM FUNCTIONALITY. RESEARCH HAS BEGUN TO FOCUS ON USING THE HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERFACE TO ...

THE INCREASING COMPLEXITY OF FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS (FMS) ARE PUSHING THE HUMAN OPERATOR TO HIS LIMITS, ESPECIALLY IN COGNITIVE-RELATED TASKS. IT IS, THEREFORE, OF PARTICULAR IMPORTANCE TO DEVELOP TECHNIQUES THAT ALLOW THE COMPUTER TO HELP THE HUMAN TO EXTEND THESE LIMITS. AN IMPORTANT CLASS OF SUCH ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES IS AN INTERACTIVE MAN-MACHINE INTERFACE (IMMI); WHICH INTELLIGENTLY ...

A concept for intelligent, multimedia computer-based training systems integrating intelligent agents with eye tracking and speech (ScanEval) is presented as a means of developing training systems that are more responsive, engaging, and motivating to trainees than current systems relying on more traditional user interface and pedagogical sequencing mechanisms. It is argued, based on published rese ...

CHI Systems proposes to develop a Man-Machine Interface for a Health and Usage Monitoring System (HUMS), a collection of mechanical diagnostic technologies that are being introduced in helicopter platforms and which offer opportunities for real-time crew analysis of mechanical subsystem states framed in a mission context. Our proposed system, HINTS, is designed to use HUMS diagnostic outcomes and ...

CHI Systems proposes to develop a Human Operator Model Baseline Architecture Simulation (HOMBAS) based on our existing Human Operator Model Management Environment (HOMME) model and architecture. HOMBAS will be designed primarily for integration into simulations of complete systems, to permit human contributions to total system performance to be appropriately reflected in simulation-based evaluatio ...

Emerging tactical information systems will provide commanders and staffs with critical battlefield information, but will also provide large volumes of routine information as well. We propose to design and build a commander's intelligent battlefield information display (CIBID) which will adaptively filter this information and intelligently sort the routine from the critical tactical information it ...