Military Medical Research on Cognitive Performance: The Warfighter's Competitive Edge (Preprint)

Abstract

Despite the military's captivation with high technology systems, human performance remains the keystone of successful military operations. Computerized, digitized, networked, and even robotic or biochemical performance enhancement tools can be force multipliers of great value; but they are only as useful as the human designers engineer them, and are only as productive as clever human operators learn to employ them. To link system designers more closely with human operators, multidisciplinary research and development teams consisting of engineers, psychologists, physicians, physiologists, and actual users of the product integrate towards achieving a well-defined and realistic goal. These teams work on to answer both basic and applied research questions to produce performance enhancement tools that are providing our forces with the competitive edge required to win on the battlefield.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA534335

Entities

People

  • Eric B. Schoomaker

Organizations

  • United States Army Medical Research and Development Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Army Rangers
  • Biomedical Research
  • Cognition
  • Computers
  • Department Of Defense
  • Environment
  • Governments
  • Information Operations
  • Military Equipment
  • Military Medicine
  • Military Operations
  • Military Research
  • Motor Skills
  • Scientists
  • Small Business

Readers

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

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy
  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - Human-Robot Interaction