Experimental Studies in a Reconfigurable C4 Test-bed for Network Enabled Capability

This paper reports on the development of a command and control environment that enables experimental studies to be conducted into Network Enabled Capability (NEC). The command and control environment comprises a reconfigurable Command Wall, and wireless local area network and reconfigurable wearable...

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Main Authors: Stanton, N A, Walker, G H, Salmon, P M, Gulliver, S, Jenkins, D, Ladva, Darshna, Rafferty, Laura, Young, M S, Watts, S, Baber, C
Format: Report
Language:English
Subjects:
COLLABORATIVE TECHNIQUES
COMMAND CONTROL COMMUNICATIONS
Command, Control and Communications Systems
COMMUNICATION MEDIA
DATA PUSH AND PULL
DECISION MAKING
EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN
FOREIGN REPORTS
HUMAN INTERACTION
INFORMATION EXCHANGE
Information Science
INFORMATION SOURCE TYPE
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS
NATO FURNISHED
NEC(NETWORK ENABLED CAPABILITY)
RECONFIGURABLE C4 (COMMAND CONTROL COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTERS) TEST-BED
SYMPOSIA
TEAMS(PERSONNEL)
TEST BEDS
Test Facilities, Equipment and Methods
UNITED KINGDOM
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Summary:This paper reports on the development of a command and control environment that enables experimental studies to be conducted into Network Enabled Capability (NEC). The command and control environment comprises a reconfigurable Command Wall, and wireless local area network and reconfigurable wearable computers. The two studies reported in this paper explore communication media (study one) and data source/decay (study two). Study one showed the advantages and disadvantages of the electronic medium for passing data between the field and command room. Study two explored data push versus data pull and the effects of data decay on some aspects of command performance. As an experimental environment the reconfigurable C4 test-bed is now beginning to show some utility. Further studies are being planned and scenarios are being developed. Presented at the RTO Human Factors and Medicine Panel (HFM) Workshop held in United States Military Academy, West Point, NY on 13-15 Jun 2006 and published in proceedings of the same as paper 4. See also ADM002024, Virtual Media for Military Applications (Media virtuels pour les applications militaires) (CD-ROM), RTO-MP-HFM-136, AC/323(HFM-136)TP/68. The original document contains color images.