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Integration of Psychophysiological and Performance Measures into an Adaptive Aiding System

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Air Force
Contract: FA8650-08-M-6826
Agency Tracking Number: F073-013-0743
Amount: $99,710.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: AF073-013
Solicitation Number: 2007.3
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2007
Award Year: 2008
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2008-01-28
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2008-11-28
Small Business Information
1221 E. Broadway, Suite 110
Oviedo, FL 32765
United States
DUNS: 075104708
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: Yes
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Sven Fuchs
 Senior Research Associate
 (407) 706-0977
 sven@designinteractive.net
Business Contact
 John Stanney
Title: CFO
Phone: (407) 706-0977
Email: john@designinteractive.net
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

To meet the challenges imposed on command-and-control environments by next-generation weapons systems and continued reduced manning efforts, we will develop the Proactive Aiding in Command and Control Environments System (PACES) – an automatic agent, informed by real-time data streams from the system, the mission, and the operator’s cognitive state. PACES will use dynamic constraint-based task modeling to anticipate future mission state and operator functional state (OFS) ahead of time. An existing workload analysis method will be used to calculate expected operator load for the future task demands anticipated by the model in real-time. Given this information, preventive adaptations of the information display can be dynamically applied to avoid cognitive bottlenecks before they occur. In addition to preventive adaptation, PACES will employ physiological measures, specifically electroencephalogram and eye tracking, to assess the operator’s actual cognitive state and mitigate problems in real-time. Physiological measures will provide input to an intelligent Soar architecture to derive OFS indicators and inform PACES when adaptive aiding is needed. The model may further analyze workflow history and operator’s physiological and behavioral responses to system events in order to dynamically adjust and improve the predictive modeling component and mitigation strategies.

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