Designing Soldier Systems
Designing Soldier Systems

Author: Dr Laurel Allender

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2013-01-28

Total Pages: 578

ISBN-13: 1409471969

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This book focuses on contemporary human factors issues within the design of soldier systems and describes how they are currently being investigated and addressed by the U.S. Army to enhance soldier performance and effectiveness. Designing Soldier Systems approaches human factors issues from three main perspectives. In the first section, Chapters 1-5 focus on complexity introduced by technology, its impact on human performance, and how issues are being addressed to reduce cognitive workload. In the second section, Chapters 6-10 concentrate on obstacles imposed by operational and environmental conditions on the battlefield and how they are being mitigated through the use of technology. The third section, Chapters 11-21, is dedicated to system design and evaluation including the tools, techniques and technologies used by researchers who design soldier systems to overcome human physical and cognitive performance limitations as well as the obstacles imposed by environmental and operations conditions that are encountered by soldiers. The book will appeal to an international multidisciplinary audience interested in the design and development of systems for military use, including defense contractors, program management offices, human factors engineers, human system integrators, system engineers, and computer scientists. Relevant programs of study include those in human factors, cognitive science, neuroscience, neuroergonomics, psychology, training and education, and engineering.

Designing Soldier Systems
Designing Soldier Systems

Author: John Martin

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781317152088

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"This book focuses on contemporary human factors issues within the design of soldier systems and describes how they are currently being investigated and addressed by the U.S. Army to enhance soldier performance and effectiveness. Designing Soldier Systems approaches human factors issues from three main perspectives. In the first section, Chapters 1-5 focus on complexity introduced by technology, its impact on human performance, and how issues are being addressed to reduce cognitive workload. In the second section, Chapters 6-10 concentrate on obstacles imposed by operational and environmental conditions on the battlefield and how they are being mitigated through the use of technology. The third section, Chapters 11-21, is dedicated to system design and evaluation including the tools, techniques and technologies used by researchers who design soldier systems to overcome human physical and cognitive performance limitations as well as the obstacles imposed by environmental and operations conditions that are encountered by soldiers. The book will appeal to an international multidisciplinary audience interested in the design and development of systems for military use, including defense contractors, program management offices, human factors engineers, human system integrators, system engineers, and computer scientists. Relevant programs of study include those in human factors, cognitive science, neuroscience, neuroergonomics, psychology, training and education, and engineering."--Provided by publisher.

Designing Soldier Systems
Designing Soldier Systems

Author: John Martin

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2018-05-20

Total Pages: 505

ISBN-13: 1317152077

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This book focuses on contemporary human factors issues within the design of soldier systems and describes how they are currently being investigated and addressed by the U.S. Army to enhance soldier performance and effectiveness. Designing Soldier Systems approaches human factors issues from three main perspectives. In the first section, Chapters 1-5 focus on complexity introduced by technology, its impact on human performance, and how issues are being addressed to reduce cognitive workload. In the second section, Chapters 6-10 concentrate on obstacles imposed by operational and environmental conditions on the battlefield and how they are being mitigated through the use of technology. The third section, Chapters 11-21, is dedicated to system design and evaluation including the tools, techniques and technologies used by researchers who design soldier systems to overcome human physical and cognitive performance limitations as well as the obstacles imposed by environmental and operations conditions that are encountered by soldiers. The book will appeal to an international multidisciplinary audience interested in the design and development of systems for military use, including defense contractors, program management offices, human factors engineers, human system integrators, system engineers, and computer scientists. Relevant programs of study include those in human factors, cognitive science, neuroscience, neuroergonomics, psychology, training and education, and engineering.

Tactical Display for Soldiers
Tactical Display for Soldiers

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 1997-02-17

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780309056380

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This book examines the human factors issues associated with the development, testing, and implementation of helmet-mounted display technology in the 21st Century Land Warrior System. Because the framework of analysis is soldier performance with the system in the full range of environments and missions, the book discusses both the military context and the characteristics of the infantry soldiers who will use the system. The major issues covered include the positive and negative effects of such a display on the local and global situation awareness of the individual soldier, an analysis of the visual and psychomotor factors associated with each design feature, design considerations for auditory displays, and physical sources of stress and the implications of the display for affecting the soldier's workload. The book proposes an innovative approach to research and testing based on a three-stage strategy that begins in the laboratory, moves to controlled field studies, and culminates in operational testing.

Human/Machine Interface Modalities for Soldier Systems Technologies
Human/Machine Interface Modalities for Soldier Systems Technologies

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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The Army's Objective Force Warrior program seeks to create a lightweight overwhelmingly lethal fully integrated individual combat system. This includes weapon, head-to-toe individual protection, networked communications, soldier-worn power sources, and enhanced human performance. Achieving this objective will in part entail the development of soldier-centric human/machine interfaces (HMIs) that optimize cognitive fightability. Such optimization is possible only if these HMIs are designed in such a way that takes into account the nature of human information processing and cognition. This in turn depend on understanding how best to use the senses by which humans perceive their environment and the means by which they can affect it; i.e., the modalities for human/machine interaction. Traditional approaches to HMI design have centered on the use of visual displays and manual inputs, but these do not take advantage of the full range of means by which humans can perceive and interact with their environment. This report reviews the literature on human/machine interface modalities. It also provides guidelines for system designers to consider when choosing which modalities should be considered in a system intended to augment human cognitive performance.

The Land Warrior Soldier System
The Land Warrior Soldier System

Author: Nile L. Clifton

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13:

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This project provides an analysis of the Army's acquisition of the Land Warrior (LW) Soldier System. Its objectives are to document the history of the LW and provide an overview of the program to establish the components of both its development and deployment and its associated business and management characteristics. The product is a document that provides an analysis of the actions taken and the obstacles encountered and how the materiel developers, warfighters, user representatives and lawmakers dealt with them. The LW need was approved in 1993. The requirement was to provide improvements for dismounted soldiers in the five specific capability categories of lethality, command and control, mobility, survivability, and sustainment. For a period lasting approximately 15 years, the LW has evolved. Despite this evolution, the Army in FY 2007 terminated it in FY 2007. Regardless, it has laid the foundation for follow-on soldier system initiatives. The LW was unsuccessful initially due to the misalignment of three interrelated and supporting components; 1) technical immaturity, 2) poor user acceptance, and 3) lack of senior leadership support. Successes that are more recent can be attributed to: 1) soldier-driven design, 2) improved technical maturity, and 3) proven employment of the system in combat by warfighters.

Soldier-Machine Interface for the Army Future Combat System: Literature Review, Requirements, and Emerging Design Principles
Soldier-Machine Interface for the Army Future Combat System: Literature Review, Requirements, and Emerging Design Principles

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Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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The Future Combat Systems (FCS) effort employs "leap-ahead" technologies and concepts to provide unprecedented levels of situational understanding and synchronization of effects. The same high level of technical sophistication used to develop Future Combat System (FCS) hardware and software should apply to the development of the soldier-machine interface (SMI). Guidance is needed to ensure that FCS SMI design is a soldier-centered process that accommodates a system-of-systems approach to warfighting; includes all soldiers, mounted and dismounted; and is effective across the full spectrum of warfare. To address this need, the authors first reviewed relevant literature in three domains: contemporary philosophies of design; specific published guidance from military, academic, and industrial sources; and current interface practices for command, control, communications, computer, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) functions. Based on these reviews, an integrative model was devised to describe the interaction among four sets of variables: operational variables, battlespace, sensory modalities, and echelon. The model indicates that as battlespace complexity increases, so does the bandwidth requirement for human information processing. Despite the tentative nature of the model, it can be used for devising FCS design guidelines. For instance, the model suggests that the auditory modality might provide the common link across echelons. The model also suggests that visual displays might be appropriate to all echelons during planning, when all warfighters have increased time available to process data, but that they would not be appropriate for lower-echelon warfighters during execution phases. The report describes 10 C4ISR interface concepts/products that are either directly or indirectly related to the FCS. (7 tables, 23 figures, 250 refs.).