| Overview: The U.S. Office of Naval Research Training Technology R&D |
APR 2004 |
21 pages |
| Authors:
Susan F. Chipman; OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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 | The U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) has a long, continuous, and distinguished tradition of support for research and development of advanced technologies for application to military training. This paper provides an overview of the history and structure of those research programs with emphasis on areas of major current activity: 1) basic research on tutorial dialog aiming for true natural language interaction capability for artificially intelligent training systems; 2) effective ... |
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| Operator Centered Design of Ship Systems |
MAR 2004 |
17 pages |
| Authors:
Susan F. Chipman; David E. Kieras; OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH ARLINGTON VA
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 | Cognitive science research, much of it supported by the Office of Naval Research, is bringing about a scientific revolution in our understanding of the human operator. It is yielding computational theories of human cognition and perceptual/motor activity that provide precise quantitative predictions of important variables such as the times required to complete tasks or to learn them in training. Although the scope of coverage of these theories is limited and ... |
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