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This Defense Intelligence Reference Document from the Defense Intelligence Agency, dated 1 November 2010, is one of a series of advanced technology reports produced in FY 2009 under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program. It proposes a provisional cockpit design for craft driven by speculative breakthrough propulsion, such as control of gravity and inertia and faster-than-light travel. It draws mainly on the book Frontiers of Propulsion Science and on human-machine interface research.
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UNCLASSIFIED/ ,'f811. 8ffl81"'1, 1,1lii s,11.~r • Grifantini, K. (2010). GM Develops Augmented Reality Windshield. Technology Review, MIT, March 17. Retrieved from News note on an advanced version or next generation of heads-up display to outline the road, pinpoint obstacles (people and signs), even in bad weather. Pertinent excerpt: "To turn the entire windshield into a transparent display, GM uses a special type of glass coated with red-emitting and blue-emitting phosphors--a clear synthetic material that glows when it is excited by ultraviolet light. The phosphor display, created by Superlmaging, is activated by tiny, ultraviolet lasers bouncing off mirrors bundled near the windshield. Three cameras track a driver's head and eyes to determine where she is looking." • Hall, Kenji. (2007). The Big Ideas Behind Nintendo's Wii. Business Week. Retrieved from News note on the development of the Wii gaming interface which is a device-dependant gesture-based interface. • Hoover, G. (1992). Stop Saturating Pilots with Alphanumeric Hieroglyphics. Aviation Week and Space Technology, June. 15, 98-99. Editorial (2 pg) Asserting opinions by an accomplished researcher on what pilots need versus what flight instrument designers were providing at that time. In short, with the advent of computer capabilities, many displays were simply providing data In numeric form rather than in some form of interpretable graphic format: "Nature does not use symbols, letters or numbers to convey information. As a result, the human being has evolved as an effective differentiator, but a poor integrator."' • Joels, Kennedy, & Larkin. (1982). The Space Shuttle Operator's Manual, New York, NY: Ballantine Books. Book (179 pg) Public oriented book illustrating the displays and controls of the Space Shuttle, which itself is tightly coupled to the legacy aircraft methods. Johannesen, L. & Woods, D. D. (1991). Human Interaction with Intelligent Systems: Trends, Problems and New Directions. In Conference Proceedings 1991 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1337-1341. Article (5 pg) Examines lessons and trends and emphasizing the need to have a visual model for the process being monitored. • McCandless, David. (2009). The Visual Miscel/aneum. New York, NY: HarperCollins. Book (255 pg) Illustrating numerous ways to graphically convey complex information In readily interpretable forms. Millis, M. & Davis, E. (Eds.). (2009). Frontiers of Propulsion Science, Volume 227 of Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics, Reston, VA: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Book (739 pg) First scholarly textbook about the physics issues, progress, and next-step research regarding such game-changing advances as control of gravitation or inertia, propellant-less space drives, faster-than-light travel, and related energy requirements. Includes physics regarding the quantum vacuum, space-time warping, quantum non-locality, cosmology, and others. Includes chapters to clearly document null-results of commonly recurring proposals, and a chapter about how to conduct such revolutionary research in contemporary circumstances. Moravec H. (2000). Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind. Oxford University Press. Book (240 pg) Fitting introduction to the notion of transhumanism, plus other predictions about the ascent of artificial life. This is an updated version of his earlier seminal book, Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence. • Morgan, B. (1985). DOD enlists voice control and expert systems. Electronic Products, Oct. 1, 65-67. 46 Article (3 pg) Relevant in reflecting the early trends to actually apply voice control In military cockpits, citing Wright-Patterson AFB as a leading center. Moskowitz, S. & Devereux, W. (1970). Navigational Aspect ofTransstellar Space Flight. In F. Ordway III (Ed.), Advances in Space Science and Technology. Academic Press, Vol.10, 75-126. UNCLASSIFIED//flilll. lilffUil,t.l, W!i! 8Hl!V
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Report, from the dia collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 57 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.