VIEW: Visualization and Interactive Elicitation Workstation -- A Tool for Representing the Commander's Mental Model of the Battlefield.
Abstract
This research assessed development of a Visualization and Interactive Elicitation Workstation (VIEW) for inferring and representing mental models of the battlefield. The prototype is composed of two subsystems: a Visualization subsystem and a Knowledge Elicitation (KE) subsystem. The Visualization subsystem is composed of three interlinked modules: (1) a Tactical Visualization Interface providing liked displays for visualizing the battlefield; (2) an Object Database providing a common object representation for environmental and military entities: and (3) an Object World Model providing behaviors for objects in the database. The KE subsystem is composed of two linked modules: (1) the KE interface which navigates across direct indirect and observational techniques collection of elicited data, and KE analysis results: and (2) the KE Recording/Analysis Module, which records the elicited data. A demonstration illustrates coupling between the visualization and elicitation components and support of direct and indirect mental model examination. Direct techniques use a case-based interview format: indirect techniques include repertory grid analysis, multidimensional scaling, and hierarchical cluster analysis.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 1996
- Accession Number
- ADA322458
Entities
People
- Christine Illgen
- Greg Zacharias
- Jake Yara
- Mehran Asdigha