Research and Development of Collaborative Environments for Command and Control

Abstract

This Final Technical Report discusses the accomplishments of a research effort to develop technology that enables more effective collaboration among computer system operators in a Command and Control environment where both conventional desktop systems and wall-sized displays are used. A Bluetooth LED pen system was developed to allow multiple operators to interact with a wall-size display simultaneously. A capability called mice/cursors without borders was developed which allows a user to move a mouse into another computer, interact with it, and perform copy and paste operations between two computers. To facilitate the development of multi-pen/cursor applications in Java, a Java package was developed to help subscribe to the service. Also, commercial-off-the- shelf frame grabbers have been used with some custom software developed under this project to achieve desktop sharing.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA543242

Entities

People

  • Jingyuan Zhang

Organizations

  • University of Alabama

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Additive Manufacturing
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Battery Chargers
  • Command And Control
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Electronic Components
  • Environment
  • Manufacturing
  • Network Computing
  • Network Protocols
  • Operating Systems
  • Physical Properties
  • System Software
  • Three Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Database Systems and Applications

Technology Areas

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