Paper Info
Title
Supporting Situation Awareness in Demanding Operating Environments through Wearable User Interfaces
Abstract
The military environment is physically and mentally extremely stressful. Tasks in the operating environment are varied, demanding and hazardous. Due to these challenges, new user interfaces (UIs) are required providing improved soldier protection and performance both in day-time and night-time conditions. The new UIs should, e.g., improve the soldier's situation awareness, i.e., perception of information, integration of pieces of information, determination of their relevance to one's goals, and projection of their status in the future. The aim of the Finnish project called "Supporting situation awareness in demanding operating environments through wearable interfaces" is to develop UIs for wearable computers that help the special force soldier carry out his/her main critical tasks, e.g., detection and identification of enemies and features of the surrounding environment, navigation and self-localization, development of tactics and communication between and within military units. The main portions of the work are task and work analysis, and conceptual design and evaluation of prototype systems. The present paper present the project and the methods that are used in the functional analysis of military tasks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/978-3-642-02728-4_2
HCI (17)
Keywords
Field
DocType
improved soldier protection,new uis,situation awareness,military task,military unit,wearable user interfaces,finnish project,special force soldier,military environment,surrounding environment,operating environment,demanding operating environments,cognitive task analysis,wearable computer,user interface,information integration,functional analysis,conceptual design
Conceptual design,Operating environment,Task analysis,Situation awareness,Wearable computer,Human–computer interaction,Engineering,User interface,Perception
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5639
0302-9743
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.64
2
11
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jari Laarni133133.26
Juhani Heinilä29527.93
Jukka Häkkinen320.64
Virpi Kalakoski432.28
Kari Kallinen58412.37
Kristian Lukander6415.10
Paula Löppönen720.64
Tapio Palomäki8222.03
Niklas Ravaja941545.82
Paula Savioja10486.74
Antti Väätänen1115234.73