Building the Joint Battlespace Infosphere. Volume 2: Interactive Information Technologies
Abstract
The Joint Battlespace Infosphere (JBI) is a combat information management system that provides individual users with the specific information required for their functional responsibilities during crisis or conflict. The JBI integrates data from a wide variety of sources, aggregates this information, and distributes the information in the appropriate form and level of detail to users at all echelons. The JBI was originally described in the 1998 USAF Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) report Information Management to Support the Warrior. In Chapter 4 of Volume 1 of the report, some interaction technologies were described in the context JBI functions: command, planning, execution, and combat support. In Volume 2, a much wider variety of interaction technologies is examined in greater detail. The goal of Volume 2 is to ensure that the masterpiece that is the JBI technical infrastructure is not partnered with clumsy, outdated user interfaces. Furthermore, the goal of the volume is to make JBI developers plan for future interaction technologies and not simply project current interaction techniques onto the JBI of the future. The volume places interaction techniques into three categories: 1. Capture, which is the input of information to the JBI. 2. Presentation which is concerned with how the users perceive information. 3. Collaboration which focuses on shared workspaces for multiple users.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 17, 1999
- Accession Number
- ADA412645
Entities
People
- Duncan Frost
- J. Mccarthy
- R. Katz
- R. Sproull
- V. Gavron