The military strategy to obtain information superiority is enshrined in the concept of Network Centric Warfare: a modern doctrine based on the interconnection of knowledgeable entities. By increasing the number of commanded platforms, the volume of the data that can be accessed grows exponentially with a high risk to get a state of information overload. This paper proposes an augmented environment for efficient command and control in net-centric operations. Touchless interaction by means of Leap Motion has been explored in order to provide a faster and more natural way to issue commands and increase situational awareness. The proposed approach was evaluated by twelve users who performed different tasks on Loki, a command and control system for electronic warfare developed by Elettronica S.p.A. The results show a strong improvement in users’ performance (i.e., completion time, number of failures, failure rate) and experience (i.e., control simplicity, level of immersion and situational awareness).
Touchless Interaction for Command and Control in Military Operations
DE PAOLIS, Lucio Tommaso
2015-01-01
Abstract
The military strategy to obtain information superiority is enshrined in the concept of Network Centric Warfare: a modern doctrine based on the interconnection of knowledgeable entities. By increasing the number of commanded platforms, the volume of the data that can be accessed grows exponentially with a high risk to get a state of information overload. This paper proposes an augmented environment for efficient command and control in net-centric operations. Touchless interaction by means of Leap Motion has been explored in order to provide a faster and more natural way to issue commands and increase situational awareness. The proposed approach was evaluated by twelve users who performed different tasks on Loki, a command and control system for electronic warfare developed by Elettronica S.p.A. The results show a strong improvement in users’ performance (i.e., completion time, number of failures, failure rate) and experience (i.e., control simplicity, level of immersion and situational awareness).I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
