Combined and General Staff Officer Course Student Evaluation of the Tactical Planning Workstation

Abstract

The Tactical Planning Workstation is an automated system that supports Army tactical staff performance at the division level. It was developed in the Experimental Development, Demonstration, and Integration Center at the U. S. Army Research Institute Fort Leavenworth Field Unit as a platform for prototyping staff information and decision aids and conducting research on staff performance. See Flanagan and Fallesen (in preparation) for a description of the capabilities of the system and Packard, McClanahan, Zarse, and Ross (in preparation) for a software description. This paper documents an evaluation of the Workstation that was conducted to obtain preliminary feedback from potential users on key design features. Students of the Command and General Staff Officer Course (CGSOC) at Fort Leavenworth provided data for the evaluation. The students made favorable comments about the ease of use of the Workstation, especially when compared with the Maneuver Control System interface.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA228423

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  • Sharon L. Riedel

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  • U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences

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