Improving Campaign Assessment and Decision Making in Command and Control Through the Use of Visualisation Techniques
Abstract
At present, no adequate visualisation tool exists to support command teams in situation assessment and selection of appropriate courses of action. Research, intending to counter a gap identified between technology and the human operator, is being conducted to understand the psychological processes underlying campaign planning and situation assessment. Through a better understanding of the underlying psychological processes, it may be possible to design the most appropriate visualisation techniques to support the operators mental models of the scenario. Humans are very effective at representing large amounts of highly complex and multivariate information visually. Research has shown that memory for previously shown visual material is very accurate and much better than for textual material (Anderson, 1995). If incoming information is organised and linked to existing knowledge, enhanced meaning is attributed to the links. Providing visual information in a framework, as described above, will facilitate processing and comprehension (Macklin, Cook, Angus, Adams, Cook and Cooper, 2002).
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 01, 2004
- Accession Number
- ADA427992
Entities
People
- Claire Macklin
- Liz Fricker