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What we've done
Concept Design
We support concept design by working closely with software developers and engineers as well as subject matter experts to provide concepts of visual and interaction designs that enable users to get the job done effectively while balancing constraints of engineering, cost, and schedule.
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- Our 3D and Naive Realism work has led to the development of a framework for pairing 2D and 3D display format to task type (2D for relative position; 3D for shape understanding)
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- CHEX, for Change History made Explicit, is a set of display design principles for maintaining situation awareness in dynamic environments and across interruptions
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- Dynamic replanning of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) explores visual display concepts to harness automation for future improvements of unmanned systems in dynamic operational environments
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- The NATO Human View Architecture was designed to explicitly represent the unique implications humans bring to system design
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- The Integrated Tool for Effects Based Allocation Modeling (iTEAM) gives military planners a means for shaping courses of action through the optimum assignment of units
Prototype Development
The display concepts we build are rooted in a well-established research base describing human limitations, preferences, and capabilities; essentially, they are created with the human user in mind.
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- Janus is a suite of composible peripheral modules that display system summary information and supports rapid scanning to help supervisors identify deviations and where to focus their attention
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- MEOT, the Mission Effectiveness Optimization Toolkit, provides accurate and detailed information to a user - the mission planner - to assist in the identification and mitigation of potential mission performance issues
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- SLATE is a context-rich wireless collaboration tool for distributed teams and supports both synchronous and asynchronous communication of text and spatial information, activity coordination, and information management
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- Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) launched from a submarine required a concept of operations for UAS-sub integration that defined roles, tasks, workflow, and new user interface concepts
System and Interface Usability
This research seeks to understand who your users are and what problems they face as they interact with or navigate your system. Our usability work not only considers but also meets and adapts to end users’ goals, expectations and requirements.
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- Fast Connectivity for Coalitions and Agents (FastC2AP) is a web portal-based system designed to enhance the ability of Maritime Fusion Centers and other watch standers to more easily identify trends and detect anomalies
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- The Mobile Meteorological Facility Replacement (METMF) Next Generation is a U.S. Marine Corps mobile tactical meteorological system designed in a sheltered HMMWV in support of the Marine Air Ground Task Force
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- NATO's Web Information Services Environment (WISE) portal is an open-source, web-based application designed to enable users to easily design, develop, and manage their own web sites, applications, content, and security permissions in real-time
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- The Navy Multiband Terminal (NMT) is the U.S. Navy’s next generation system for providing secure, protected, survivable, advanced extremely high frequency (AEHF) and wideband satellite communications to Navy platforms
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- Predictive Analysis for Naval Deployment Activities (PANDA) is a web-based system designed to help analysts understand normal and historical ship behavior, predict future behavior, and identify anomalies in current or past behavior
Test and Evaluation
We use both laboratory and field environments for testing. Our highly skilled team of engineers and scientists value the “hands on” approach and encourage each member of the team to have face-to-face discussions with those who we support.
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- Command, Control, Communications and Computers (C4) decision making bottlenecks were evaluated along with human performance requirements and constraints
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- The Human Systems Integration Framework is an ongoing project to define and map HSI activities to existing system engineering and acquisition processes
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- We developed a shared measurement repository - a metrics ontology - for storing three types of HSI-related information: human performance measures, data collected using those measures, and guidance on applying each measure
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- Trident Warrior is the annual operational experiment that supports a military utility assessment of emerging technologies within a realistic at-sea environment
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- The U.S. Marine Corps load carriage study examined the relationship between heavy load carriage and warfighter cognitive performance
Training and User Aids
We have developed training materials, user manuals, quick reference guides, embedded training, job performance aids, and decision support tools for a variety of complex and high-profile systems.
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- Small unit decision making was evaluated using the US Marine Corps' Infantry Immersion Trainer (IIT) at Camp Pendleton
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- Our Human, Social, Culture and Behavior (HSCB) Modeling program efforts have helped potential users of HSCB technologies better understand the capabilities offered and enabled developers to better understand the subtleties of their targeted user groups
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- A transformative effort was conducted for the US European Command to better understand how current and emerging information and knowledge management concepts, practices, and technologies might be adapted to meet the needs of the Standing Joint Force Headquarters (SJFHQ)
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