Direct Manipulating Interface Techniques for Users Interacting with Software Agents

Abstract

In this paper we provide an overview of our research investigating what functionality should be provided to users of a future Joint Battlespace Infosphere (JBI). We characterize and discuss the development of the JBI as a new form of automation that employs intelligent agents to autonomously seek, retrieve, and fuse information We believe that the development of new types of direct manipulation interfaces are the best approach to achieving JBI goals of reducing decision time and manning while maintaining positive control over the command and control (C2) system. Further, we argue that the integration of direct manipulation interface techniques with interface agents will change the HCI from a mechanism to execute tasks into a decision-aid that supports cognitive information processing. We cootextualize this discussion by providing an overview of the Air Force Research Laboratory's Human Interaction with Software Agents (HISA) project. This effort is developing a HCI for Air Mobility Command's (AMC) Tanker Airlift Control Center (TACC) that interacts with operational C2 systems through intelligent agents, similar to the manner of the proposed JBI.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADP010698

Entities

People

  • Michael Young
  • Randall Whitaker
  • Robert G. Eggleston

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Application Software
  • Artificial Intelligence Computing
  • Cognitive Complexity
  • Cognitive Workload
  • Command And Control
  • Computers
  • Data Displays
  • Databases
  • Design Criteria
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Information Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Ontologies
  • Software Agents
  • User Interface

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Aerospace logistics and air mobility.
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.

Technology Areas

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