Evaluating Collaborative Technologies for Command and Control Teams.
Abstract
This document describes the U. S. Navy's initial demonstration of the collaborative technology assessment laboratory (COLAB) during a distributed situation assessment task. Five command and control warfare (C2W) teams, each consisting of three naval officers and a commander, participated in an exercise scenario involving four vignettes that required the team to generate a situation assessment report (SITREP) based on shared information. The COLAB compared the quality, completeness, and consistency of team performance based on collaborative technology with more traditional voice and text communications methods. No advantage could be attributed solely to the collaborative technology. Differences in the frequency and pattern of communications across the traditional and collaborative methods created nonmeaningful influences on the major outcome measures. However, these results led to improved understanding of team collaborative behavior and the creation of a systematic approach for assessing the role of collaborative technology on team performance. As part of this approach, the COBOL developed a set of analytic techniques for evaluating data collected in collaborative studies. These techniques can be applied in future experiments using the COLAB to evaluate collaborative processes and technologies in Navy C2W operations.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 1996
- Accession Number
- ADA317483
Entities
People
- B. A. Feher
- J. M. Linville
- J. W. Gwynne
- R. J. Smillie
- R. W. Obemayer