C3Conflict a Simulation Environment for Studying Teamwork in Command and Control

Abstract

This paper describes C3Conflict, a research and training environment developed to support research and training of co-ordination and collaborative work in C2 situations. C3 C3Conflict is based on the C3Fire microworld (www.c3fire.org) and are developed by the C3Fire team in collaboration with the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, USA. C3Fire is well established and has been used in a wide variety of research projects over the past ten years. In C3Conflict, unlike C3Fire, is a two-sided game where the adversaries can be willfully hostile. The presented situations have a military cover story and appearance. Conflict is a command, control and communication, simulation environment tailored to the peace-keeping military domain. The environment creates a situation where a group of people (3 to 12 persons) can tackle a variety of common problems in team work and C2. The tasks presented by C3Conflict are complex, dynamic and have opaque characteristics, similar to the cognitive tasks that people normally encounter in real-life C2 systems. One of the most important features of C3Conflict is that the system monitors the activities of all players. Monitoring is integrated into the simulation and all the information tools the players use. During a session, the system creates a log with all events and all computer mediated activities, such as communication and individual work. The log enables analyses of quantitative measures of performance, communication, coordination and responsibility distribution. Analyses can be performed at both the individual and group levels. The paper describes simulation usage and the functions that make it possible to use the environment to develop training exercises and to conduct research on C2 behavior, team work and collaboration.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA547134

Entities

People

  • Helena Granlund
  • Kip Smith
  • Rego Granlund

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Applied Psychology
  • Cognitive Systems Engineering
  • Command And Control
  • Computers
  • Education
  • Electronic Mail
  • Emergency Response
  • Environment
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Human Systems Integration
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Information Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Military Operations
  • Psychology
  • Simulations
  • Simulators

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Military Training and Readiness Simulation

Technology Areas

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