User-elicited tactical information requirements with implications for symbology and graphic portrayal standards / Betty M. Landee, Michael G. Samet and Leon H. Gellman.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Landee, Betty M., author.

Samet, Michael G., author.

Gellman, Leon H., author.

Contributor:

U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences. Human Factors Technical Area, issuing body.

Perceptronics Incorporated

Series:

Technical report (U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences) ; 497.

Technical report ; 497

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tactics.

Command and control systems.

Communications, Military.

Genre:

technical reports.

Technical reports

Technical reports.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 130 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Alexandria, Virginia : U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, April 1980.

Summary:

The primary purpose of this research was to elicit and organize selected battlefield information requirements of the command staff, and to examine the adequacy of conventional symbology for satisfying these requirements. An elicitation procedure was developed and utilized with small groups of Army officers in a tactical role-playing exercise involving a specified Division-level scenario. Information requirements in the form of tactical questions were generated and reviewed by participants, both individually and together. In addition, for each question, the participants completed a form which provided descriptive information such as whether the answer to the question is available from a display with conventional symbology (FM 21-30). In an effort to organize the information requirements, an hierarchical clustering technique was applied that analyzed the similarity between questions in terms of 58 semantic features (e. g., friendly, enemy, artillery, vulnerability, etc.). The elicitation sessions resulted in the generation of a total of 272 distinct tactical questions. These questions formed seven major clusters which were assigned the following names to reflect the central theme of their respective information content: friendly, enemy, time/ capability, status, activities/procedures, terrain/routes, and planning.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed Jan. 27, 2015).

"Perceptronics, Inc."

"Human Factors Technical Area."

Includes bibliographical references.

"Army project number 2Q762722A765."

Other Format:

Print version: Landee, Betty M. User-elicited tactical information requirements with implications for symbology and graphic portrayal standards

Microfiche version: Landee, Betty M. User-elicited tactical information requirements with implications for symbology and graphic portrayal standards

Online version: Landee, Betty M. User-elicited tactical information requirements with implications for symbology and graphic portrayal standards

OCLC:

227520470