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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//FIHl 8FFHil.t.l:: '11815 8Hl::l/ Although not mentioned in the lecture (advertising is not allowed at TED talks), Underkoffler's Oblong Industries is already working to make those systems real. Van der Vaart, A. J. M. (1995). Arm movements in operating rotary controls (Doctoral dissertation). Techniche Universiteit Delft, Netherlands, Delftse Univ. Pres. Dissertation (169 pg) Intense detail into arm and hand motions when dealing with controls such as knobs and joysticks - including experimental test methods. Sections both in English and Dutch. Many useful diagrams for those designing the actual mechanics of controls. Suitable information if designing a new six-degree of freedom joystick. • Visual Understanding Environment (VUE). (2008). Tufts University. Site developed by Academic Technology. Retrieved from Downloadable, open source software to create flexible tools for managing and integrating digital resources in support of teaching, learning and research. '"VUE provides a flexible visual environment for structuring, presenting, and sharing digital information." • Wan, C, et al. (1991). 'Vise: A Visual Programming Environment for Data Analysis and V1sual1zation." Presented at the 1999/Nov. Conference of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) User Interface Software and Technology (National Information Display Laboratory). Report (7 pg) Pertinent in the context of reflecting the degree of difficulty when presenting information about the health of an electromechanical system, where comprehending and reacting to the data is not straightforward. Hierarchical organization covered. • Webb, P. (Ed.). (1964). SECTION 17. VISION, Bioastronautics Data Book. NASA SP-3006. Washington DC: Scientific and Technical Information Division. Section from Book containing data on human vision, field of view, effects of lighting, etc. • Woods, D. D. (1984). Visual momentum: a concept to improve the cognitive coupling of person and computer. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 21, 229-244. Report (16 pg), Examines the problem of getting lost when working with the multiple display windows that are now common in computer displays. The taxonomy is also useful. • Woods, D. D. (1988). The Significance Messages Concept for Intelligent Adaptive Data Display. Working Paper Series No. 1988-015. Columbus OH: Ohio State University. Report (21 pg) Discusses how intelligent monitoring systems can take on the function of combining a number of variables to calculated a condensed and meaningful "'Significant Message" to the user. For example, instead of just displaying various states of a system, the intelligent system takes all those values to give the user a key message, such as "Pump 1 at reduced capacity." • Woods, D. D. (1993). The price of flexibility. In Hefley & Murray (Eds.), Proceeding of the International Workshop on Intelligent User Interfaces. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Report (7 pg) Illustrates how adding flexibility to information displays increased the burden on the users. Users dealt with this by setting a default fixed display and by avo1d1ng using the systems during high- stress moments. A list of corrective measures is provided for designing intelligent user interfaces. 49 UNCLASSIFIED//5O9 QSFICI0k WEE Qllk>f
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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.