Abstract
The fast pace of technological change has pushed military procurement into a design environment in which traditional evolutionary design methods no longer satisfy the need to take advantage of emerging functionality. No aspect of this new demand is more taxing than the design for human participation. A more systematic, human-oriented approach is needed to elicit and define the cognitive requirements associated with new systems. We plan to resolve these issues by melding the constraint based approach of Cognitive Work Analysis with a task-based modeling approach in order to down-select scenarios and explore critical cases in preparation for resolving cognitive issues with constructive and Human in the Loop simulation. In this project we have so far undertaken a cognitive analysis of some aspects of our client system, the Multi-sensor Command and Control Aircraft. We have also developed strategies and formal guidelines for translating results of the cognitive analysis into forms suitable for the task-based modeling.
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