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6 Basic Research for Human Interactions with Air Force IS&T Systems
6 Basic Research for Human Interactions with Air Force IS&T Systems
Pages 70-78
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There is strong historical precedence for this area of research. One example of clear importance to the Air Force is the use of cockpit simulators for training and rehearsing.
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HUMAN INTERACTIONS WITH AIR FORCE IS&T SYSTEMS 71 CHALLENGES POSED BY HUMAN INTERACTIONS WITH AIR FORCE IS&T SYSTEMS Scope of the Challenge In the Air Force, there are many instances where one or more humans interact with one or more IS&T systems. These include systems that are distributed not only among different platforms but also perhaps across geographical and organizational boundaries, most often with strict security and service reliability constraints such as near-real-time or timecritical services.
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. Research efforts could be shared by industries that are also seeking power-efficient displays.
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Interfaces for Air Force Decision Makers There is a general need within the Air Force for decision-support tools providing more effective interfaces between decision makers and the voluminous information available to them. Over the years, various software packages have been developed to support decision-making.
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Classical decision theory is most widely studied in a static setting in which the data are given and then analyzed and acted upon. In the real world -- and especially in Air Force information operations and influence operations -- the inputs to the decision often change before the solution can be implemented.
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While some attention has been paid to the design of ground control units, significant improvements could probably be made using state-of-the art knowledge of HSI design and collaboration. However, significant advances in intelligent control, HSI methods, and other areas of interactive-collaboration research will be needed to move toward the goal of having one person control a single UAV, with even more research being required before one person could control multiple UAVs.
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And a good simulation system can also be a good training tool for users. BASIC RESEARCH RECOMMENDATIONS FOR HSI FOR AIR FORCE IS&T SYSTEMS Some of the most valuable basic research efforts that would address the challenges in this chapter are listed below.
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To counter this, specific research is needed to enhance models of users' capabilities to interact with and under stand systems via different modalities; to automate acquisition and enhancement of information fusion models; to create models of users that can be trained from instruction or in exercises with humans; and experimentation in domains of Air Force relevance. · Interactive system components that can adapt and learn from their environment or from human supervision should be investigated.
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· Research on the modeling and simulation of scenarios of impor tance to the Air Force, including more rapid and cost-effective con struction of domain-faithful models of information and influence operations; support for the authoring of scenarios and their trans lation into the models and databases required for simulations; and software tools to allow users to tailor and understand the behavior and functionality of software components.
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