Eye metrics for task-dependent automation

Future air traffic is expected to grow increasingly, opening up a gap for task dependent automation and adaptive interfaces, helping the Air Traffic Controller to cope with fluctuating workloads. One of the challenging factors in the application of such intelligent systems concerns the question what the operator is doing in order to optimize...

A Smarter Common Operational Picture: The Application of Cognitive Work Analysis to Naval Command and Control.

During the last ten years significant steps have been made in connecting military command and control systems from different defense forces in joint and combined operations. However, a common operational picture (COP) that provides all actors within the defense organization with sufficient, accurate, and timely information is still an elusive...

Adaptive Automation in a Naval Combat Management System

There is a continuing trend of letting fewer people deal with larger amounts of information in more complex situations using highly automated systems. In such circumstances, there is a risk that people are overwhelmed by information during intense periods or, on the other hand, do not build sufficient situational awareness during periods of...

Situated cognitive engineering: Developing adaptive track handling support for naval command and control centers

Future naval missions set high operational, human factors, and technical demands for a system that enhances human-machine teams’ capabilities to cope with complex and potentially hazardous situations. This paper presents a situated Cognitive Engineering (sCE) methodology for an integrated analysis of these three types of demands, the derivation...

Utilizing an eye tracker device for operator support

At present a number of studies have attempted to embed eye-tracking devices into closed-loop systems to augment the cognitive state of the human operator. It has been demonstrated that the pupil diameter and blinking frequency serve as such indicators. Although these two factors serve cognitive state analysis , other measures are required that...

Augmenting cognition: Reviewing the symbiotic relation between man and machine

One of the goals of augmented cognition is creation of adaptive human-machine collaboration that continually optimizes performance of the human-machine system. Augmented Cognition aims to compensate for temporal limitations in human information processing, for instance in the case of overload, cognitive lockup, and underload. Adaptive behavior,...

A closed-loop adaptive system for command and control

On Navy ships, technological developments enable crews to work more efficiently and effectively. However, in such complex, autonomous, and information-rich environments a competition for the users' attention is going on between different information items, possibly leading to a cognitive overload. This overload originates in the limitations of...

Developing adaptive user interfaces using a game-based simulation environment

In dynamic settings, user interfaces can provide more optimal support if they adapt to the context of use. Providing adaptive user interfaces to first responders may therefore be fruitful. A cognitive engineering method that incorporates development iterations in both a simulated and a real-world environment is used to develop new adaptive...

Adaptive Automation using an object-orientated task model

On naval ships the crew is assisted by a combat management system (CMS) in their assessment of the tactical situation around the ship and their subsequent actions. Today’s information-rich littoral environments force operators to divide attention between different information items. The risk of overload is imminent and the concept of adaptive...

Automated adaptive support for task and information prioritizing

This paper discusses a means for automatically supporting humans in information and task prioritizing. A new generic method based on the Competitive Task Model is described. Its implementation is able to calculate priorities of competing information entities, which provides a way of allocating tasks to the process operator. Due to a combination...