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Cognitive Engineering Practice
Case Studies:
Embedded Decision Support for New Naval Missions
___________________________________________________Challenge
The Navy needed to create a new generation of warships that could out-perform the current generation while operating with just one-quarter of the crew. This 21st century surface combatant (SC-21) challenge required radicallly new thinking in the way people are used on-board.
Sailors would need to take on a decision-making role, supervising the intelligent automation. Designing intelligent automation that a human could supervise and interact with posed a challenge to conventional automation and artificial intelligence technology.
Result
The CHI Systems Cognitive Engineering Practice worked with the Office of Naval Research and several Navy laboratories to demonstrate how cognitive agents could augment and support sailors’ decision-making and work-performance.
Our team developed an iGEN-based agent known as the Naval Surface Fire Support Assistant (NSFSA) that provided decision support to the human gun commander using a new gun system. Sailors reported that the NSFSA was easy to understand and operate.
Reference
Zachary, W., Ryder, J., Santarelli, T., & Weiland, M. (2000). Applications for Executable Cognitive Models: A Case-study Approach
