Human Factors Research Conducted under the COMDAT Technology Demonstrator Project

Abstract

The purpose of the Command Decision Aiding Technology (COMDAT) Technology Demonstrator Project (TDP) was to research and demonstrate multi-source data fusion (MSDF) technologies and carry out human factors (HF) studies to support upgrades to the Halifax Class Command and Control System (CCS), in the area of battle space awareness. Since the requisite HF knowledge to support this TDP did not exist, the HF component included the generation of the founding knowledge necessary for decision aid development in future projects. The major work items included: 1) the conduct of cognitive and functional task analyses to define the information requirements of the major Operations Room positions on Halifax Class ships; 2) the development of human-in-the-loop measures of performance in order to evaluate strategies for conducting performance evaluations, define current performance in the Operations Room, and evaluate technologies including MSDF; 3) recommendations for improvements to human computer interfaces in the existing CCS and the Technology Demonstrator (TD); 4) the development of a concept of operations for user involvement in MSDF; and 5) support for an evaluation of operator-system picture compilation performance using the final TD. The detailed results of the HF work have been published in a series of reports over the course of the project which lasted from June 2000 to March 2007. This final report provides a summary of the reports along with related material that informed and supplemented this work, some lessons learned, and recommendations for future work. Overall, we have a better understanding of the usefulness of the methods that were investigated as well as considerably more knowledge about the information requirements and processes involved in building the tactical picture in the Halifax Class Operations Room.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA477155

Entities

People

  • Lisa Rehak
  • Michael L. Matthews
  • Sharon Mcfadden

Organizations

  • HumanSystems Incorporated

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cognitive Systems Engineering
  • Cognitive Workload
  • Combat Information Centers
  • Computers
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Human Systems Integration
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Information Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Literature Surveys
  • Naval Warfare
  • Organizational Structure
  • Situational Awareness
  • Task Performance And Analysis
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional

Readers

  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control
  • Space