Command & Control in Virtual Environments: Tailoring Software Agents to Emulate Specific People

Abstract

Development of and experimentation with ELICIT (Experimental Laboratory for Investigating Collaboration, Information-sharing and Trust) is an ongoing activity of the U.S. DoD Command and Control Research Program (CCRP) within the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration (OASD/NII). A recent CCRP-sponsored effort resulted in the development of a configurable sensemaking agent to enable agent-based ELICIT simulation experiments. A key step in the adoption of these configurable agents for use in research is demonstrating that these agents can be configured to behave as specific humans behave. This paper discusses how the behavior of humans in an actual ELICIT experiment is successfully modeled using sensemaking agents and provides suggestions for how the validated agents could be used in future ELICIT experiments.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA524166

Entities

People

  • Danielle M. Wynn
  • Mark E. Nissen
  • Mary Ruddy

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • C4I

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Command And Control
  • Department Of Defense
  • Hierarchies
  • Human Behavior
  • Information Exchange
  • Information Operations
  • Information Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Military Operations
  • Organizational Structure
  • Psychology
  • Simulations
  • Software Agents
  • Teamwork
  • Virtual Reality
  • Websites

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.

Technology Areas

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