Applying Adaptive Control and Display Characteristics to Future Air Force Crew Stations

Abstract

The Human Effectiveness Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory is developing and evaluating human-machine interface concepts to enhance overall weapon system performance by embedding knowledge of the operator's state inside the interface, enabling the interface to make informed, automated decisions regarding many of the interface's information management display characteristics. Some of these characteristics include information modality, spatial arrangement, and temporal organization. By increasing the ability of the interface to respond, or adapt, to the changing requirements of the human operator in real time-in essence closing the loop-the interface provides intuitive information management to the operator and provides real-time human engineering.