Abstract
The push in the Navy to design and build new ships that can be effectively manned with dramatically fewer sailors raises key Human Factors issues that must be addressed in the system design process. To promote the understanding of these issues and their solutions throughout the system design team, an effort is currently underway to develop a software agent, called the Executive Advisor (EA). This agent will alert and advise systems engineers and the rest of the engineering team regarding human factors issues and analyses appropriate to the current stage of the system design process. The EA is being built with a cognitive modeling tool called iGEN™, in order to (a) enable context-sensitive reasoning about relevant human factors issues, and (b) facilitate human-agent dialogue. The capabilities and structure of the agent will be described.
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