COGWHEEL: A FILM STORY OF SYSTEMS RESEARCH LABORATORY'S ACTIVITIES

Abstract

'Cogwheel' is a 30-minute sound film that shows a 40-man Air Force crew operating an air-defense direction center in the Systems Research Laboratory at The RAND Corporation. It traces the development of the Cogwheel crew as an organization, illustrates the complexities of direction-center operations, brings out some of the problems of studying systems in a laboratory, and demonstrates the realism in human behavior and environment building that can be attained in laboratory studies of this kind.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 21, 1955
Accession Number
AD0604956

Entities

People

  • Milton G. Weiner
  • Robert L. Chapman

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Defense
  • Air Force
  • Corporations
  • Detection
  • Environment
  • Human Behavior
  • Identification
  • Learning
  • Microfiche
  • Scientific Organizations
  • Scientists
  • Sequences
  • Training

Readers

  • Military Engineering.
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.