An Analysis of Friendly Input Devices for the Control of the Naval Warfare Interactive Simulation System (NWISS).

Abstract

This thesis describes an experiment conducted at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) during the period 15 October through 28 October 1985. Specifically, the experiment evaluates 'pull-down window' microcomputer technology, continuous speech recognition equipment, and standard computer keyboard entry to input commands in a command and control environment. Using the Naval Warfare Interactive Simulation System (NWISS) as a controlled medium, military problems were posed to test subjects in specific light and noise environments. Although the results are not entirely conclusive, they do demonstrate a distinct advantage in using continuous speech or keyboard entry modes over the drop-down window technology of the Macintosh (if subject training time is not a significant restriction). Either the continuous speech, or the keyword method was clearly superior in all environments.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1986
Accession Number
ADA168780

Entities

People

  • Kenneth J. Bitar
  • Mark J. Sweeney

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Automated Speech Recognition
  • Command And Control
  • Computers
  • Data Analysis
  • Environment
  • Naval Warfare
  • Recognition
  • Schools
  • Simulations
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Students
  • Training
  • United States
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Maritime and Naval Warfare Studies
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Autonomous Systems
  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control