Download or read book Use of Immersive Virtual Environments for Measuring and Training Situation Awareness written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our paper describes the development and preliminary testing of three systems for unobtrusively measuring situation awareness (SA) during dismounted infantry squad-level exercises conducted with immersive Virtual Environment (VE) simulations. The SA measurement systems employ probes administered in the guise of normal radio communications, and systematic subjective ratings of squad leader behaviors and communications. Trials of the systems were conducted with three squads that differed in the experience level of the squad members and whether they had previously functioned together as intact squads. Results indicated that the measurement systems were unobtrusive and measured what they were designed to measure: squad leader SA. Ongoing modifications to the systems are described. Planned applications to other training domains are outlined.

Download or read book Human Performance and Situation Awareness Measures written by Valerie Jane Gawron and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was developed to help researchers and practitioners select measures to be used in the evaluation of human/machine systems. The book begins with an overview of the steps involved in developing a test to measure human performance. This is followed by a definition of human performance and a review of human performance measures. Another section defines situational awareness with reviews of situational awareness measures. For both the performance and situational awareness sections, each measure is described, along with its strengths and limitations, data requirements, threshold values, and sources of further information. To make this reference easier to use, extensive author and subject indices are provided. Features Provides a short engineering tutorial on experimental design Offers readily accessible information on human performance and situational awareness (SA) measures Presents general description of the measure Covers data collection, reduction, and analysis requirements Details the strengths and limitations or restrictions of each measure, including proprietary rights or restrictions

Download or read book Human Performance Workload and Situational Awareness Measures Handbook Third Edition 2 Volume Set written by Valerie Jane Gawron and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume set was developed to help researchers and practitioners select measures to be used in the evaluation of human/machine systems. It can also be used to supplement classes at both the undergraduate and graduate courses in ergonomics, experimental psychology, human factors, human performance, measurement, and system test and evaluation. Volume 1 of the handbook begins with an overview of the steps involved in developing a test to measure human performance, workload, and/or situational awareness. This is followed by a definition of human performance and a review of human performance measures. Situational Awareness is similarly treated in a subsequent chapter. Volume 2 presents a definition of workload and a review of workload measures. Provides a short engineering tutorial on experimental design Offers readily accessible information on human performance, workload, and situational awareness (SA) measures Presents general description of the measure Covers data collection, reduction, and analysis requirement Details out the strengths and limitations or restrictions of each measure, including any known proprietary rights or restrictions, as well as validity and reliability data

Download or read book Handbook of Virtual Environments written by Kelly S. Hale and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-09-10 with total page 1450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Complete Toolbox of Theories and Techniques The second edition of a bestseller, Handbook of Virtual Environments: Design, Implementation, and Applications presents systematic and extensive coverage of the primary areas of research and development within VE technology. It brings together a comprehensive set of contributed articles that address the principles required to define system requirements and design, build, evaluate, implement, and manage the effective use of VE applications. The contributors provide critical insights and principles associated with their given areas of expertise to provide extensive scope and detail on VE technology and its applications. What’s New in the Second Edition: Updated glossary of terms to promote common language throughout the community New chapters on olfactory perception, avatar control, motion sickness, and display design, as well as a whole host of new application areas Updated information to reflect the tremendous progress made over the last decade in applying VE technology to a growing number of domains This second edition includes nine new, as well as forty-one updated chapters that reflect the progress made in basic and applied research related to the creation, application, and evaluation of virtual environments. Contributions from leading researchers and practitioners from multidisciplinary domains provide a wealth of theoretical and practical information, resulting in a complete toolbox of theories and techniques that you can rely on to develop more captivating and effective virtual worlds. The handbook supplies a valuable resource for advancing VE applications as you take them from the laboratory to the real-world lives of people everywhere.

Download or read book Situation Awareness in a Virtual Environment written by Michael D. Matthews and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mission Awareness Rating Scale (MARS), a subjective situation awareness (SA) rating scale designed to assess SA content and SA workload, was tested in a series of virtual environment exercises. Sixteen enlisted soldiers, working in teams of four soldiers each, completed four urban combat missions in a virtual night environment designed to simulate the experience of working with night vision goggles - NVG (PVS-7Bs) and aiming lights. In each scenario, a different approach for simulating this NVG environment was used. After each scenario was completed, each soldier completed the MARS instrument. This yielded estimates of the SA level and workload involved in four dimensions of SA - perception, understanding, projection, and knowing what decision to make. The results indicated that MARS significantly and rebustly discriminated among the different approaches, and these SA estimates were congruent with general estimates of SA content and workload while operating at night in the real world, and with the soldier's subjective rankings of the four simulated NVG environments. While promising, MARS must be validated against objective SA measures, both in the virtual environment and in the field environment. However, MARS seems to hold premise as a relatively unobtrusive and effective SA measure.

Download or read book The PSI Handbook of Virtual Environments for Training and Education written by Joseph V. Cohn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-11-30 with total page 1441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increasingly complex environment of the 21st century demands unprecedented knowledge, skills and abilities for people from all walks of life. One powerful solution that blends the science of learning with the technological advances of computing is Virtual Environments. In the United States alone, the Department of Defense has invested billions of dollars over the past decade to make this field and its developments as effective as possible. This 3-volume work provides, for the first time, comprehensive coverage of the many different domains that must be integrated for Virtual Environments to fully provide effective training and education. The first volume is dedicated to a thorough understanding of learning theory, requirements definition and performance measurement, providing insight into the human-centric specifications the VE must satisfy to succeed. Volume II provides the latest information on VE component technologies, and Volume III offers discussion of an extensive collection of integrated systems presented as VE use-cases, and results of effectiveness evaluation studies. The text includes emerging directions of this evolving technology, from cognitive rehabilitation to the next generation of museum exhibitions. Finally, the handbook offers a glimpse into the future with this fascinating technology. This groundbreaking set will interest students, scholars and researchers in the fields of military science, technology, computer science, business, law enforcement, cognitive psychology, education and health. Topics addressed include guidance and interventions using VE as a teaching tool, what to look for in terms of human-centered systems and components, and current training uses in the Navy, Army, Air Force and Marines. Game-based and long distance training are explained, as are particular challenges such as the emergence of VE sickness. Chapters also highlight the combination of VE and cybernetics, robotics and artificial intelligence.

Download or read book Virtual Augmented and Mixed Reality Applications and Case Studies written by Jessie Y.C. Chen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-07-10 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume set LNCS 11574 and 11575 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality, VAMR 2019, held in July 2019 as part of HCI International 2019 in Orlando, FL, USA. HCII 2019 received a total of 5029 submissions, of which 1275 papers and 209 posters were accepted for publication after a careful reviewing process. The 80 papers presented in this volume were organized in topical sections named: multimodal interaction in VR, rendering, layout, visualization and navigation, avatars, embodiment and empathy in VAMR, cognitive and health issues in VAMR, VAMR and robots, VAMR in learning, training and entertainment, VAMR in aviation, industry and the military.

Download or read book Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction written by Terje Gjøsæter and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-05-28 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume constitutes the refereed and revised post-conference proceedings of the 7th IFIP WG 5.15 International Conference on Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction, ITDRR 2022, held in Kristiansand, Norway, in October 2022. The 23 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 submissions. The papers focus on various aspects and challenges of coping with disaster risk reduction. The papers are categorized in the following topical subheadings: strategic disaster risk reduction; situational awareness; telecommunications, sensors and drones; collaborative emergency management; cybersecurity and privacy; earthquake and climate forecasting; social media analytics; community resilience.

Download or read book Proceedings of the 12th Annual Generalized Intelligent Framework for Tutoring GIFT Users Symposium GIFTSym12 written by Benjamin Goldberg and published by U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command – Soldier Center. This book was released on 2024-08-16 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the Proceedings of the 12th Annual GIFT User Symposium! This year we are celebrating 12 years of GIFT Symposiums and have accepted 12 papers for publication. All of the presentations and the papers in this volume show the versatility of the Generalized Intelligent Framework for Tutoring (GIFT), and the work that is being done with GIFT. GIFT is an open-source intelligent tutoring system (ITS) architecture that is freely available online at GIFTtutoring.org. There are both Cloud and Downloadable version of GIFT. GIFT has been developed with multiple goals in mind including supporting ITS research, and simplified creation of ITSs and Adaptive Instructional Systems (AISs). Our fantastic team, and our program committee did a great job supporting the development of GIFTSym12, reviewing papers, and assisting with the facilitation of the event this year. We want to recognize them for their efforts: • Benjamin Goldberg • Gregory Goodwin • Anne Sinatra • Michele Myers • Alexandra Lutz • Randall Spain • Lisa N. Townsend We were very pleased to have GIFTSym11 return to being an in-person event this year! Additionally, this was our first year offering a hybrid option for attendees. We are very happy that both modalities were well attended!

Download or read book Evaluating Human Operator Performance in a Fully Immersive Virtual Reality Environment written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Virtual Reality Applications Center is a national leader in the increasingly important field of applications of virtual reality to the challenges of engineering and science. This DURIP contract provided peripheral equipment for VRAC's C6, a 360-degree immersion device used to display synthetic environments in real time. C6 includes six stereoscopic screens, a three-dimensional sound system, and wireless technologies. C6, which cost over $5 million to design and build, was made possible by support from the Air Force of Scientific Research, the National Science Foundation, Iowa State University and private industry. DURIP funds helped purchase a tracking system, networking hardware, and storage devices crucial to the operation of the system. We are now using the C6 on two major defense related projects applying virtual reality interfaces to improve operational readiness and situational awareness. The first of these projects, sponsored by the Air Force Research Lab's Human Effectiveness Directorate, is investigating the use of collaborative computer immersion to recreate a Joint Battlespace. The second is a multi-year collaboration between a VRAC research team, the Iowa National Guard, and the Iowa Technology Center. The objective of this effort is to investigate, create and evaluate the use of immersive interfaces as tools to improve the operational readiness of Iowa National Guard staff, both Army and Air.

Download or read book Handbook of Virtual Environments written by Kelly S. Hale and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-09-10 with total page 1371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Complete Toolbox of Theories and TechniquesThe second edition of a bestseller, Handbook of Virtual Environments: Design, Implementation, and Applications presents systematic and extensive coverage of the primary areas of research and development within VE technology. It brings together a comprehensive set of contributed articles that address the

Download or read book International Encyclopedia of Ergonomics and Human Factors 3 Volume Set written by Informa Healthcare and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2006-03-15 with total page 3656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The previous edition of the International Encyclopedia of Ergonomics and Human Factors made history as the first unified source of reliable information drawn from many realms of science and technology and created specifically with ergonomics professionals in mind. It was also a winner of the Best Reference Award 2002 from the Engineering Libraries

Download or read book Proceedings of the International Conference on Advancing and Redesigning Education 2023 written by Mohd Fakhizan bin Romlie and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 895 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book ECEL 2018 17th European Conference on e Learning written by and published by Academic Conferences and publishing limited. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European Conference on e-Learning was established 17 years ago. It has been held in France, Portugal, England, The Netherlands, Greece and Denmark to mention only a few of the countries who have hosted it. ECEL is generally attended by participants from more than 40 countries and attracts an interesting combination of academic scholars, practitioners and individuals who are engaged in various aspects of e-Learning. Among other journals, the Electronic Journal of e-Learning publishes a special edition of the best papers presented at this conference.

Download or read book Real VR Immersive Digital Reality written by Marcus Magnor and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the advent of consumer-market Virtual Reality (VR) technology, the next revolution in visual entertainment is already on the horizon: real VR will enable us to experience live-action movies, sports broadcasts, concert videos, etc. in true visual (and aural) immersion. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the algorithms and methods that make it possible to immerse into real-world recordings. It brings together the expertise of internationally renowned experts from academia and industry who present the state of the art in this fascinating, interdisciplinary new research field. Written by and for scientists, engineers, and practitioners, this book is the definitive reference for anyone interested in finding out about how to import the real world into head-mounted displays.

Download or read book Conception and Evaluation of Virtual Environments Dedicated to Crisis Management written by Aurélie Congès and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a crisis, the efficiency and quickness of the response might mean life or death for the victims. Strong knowledge of the situation and an effective decision-making process are crucial to ensure that the crisis will be solved with the minimum damage to people and goods. Two phases of the crisis are then important to consider: the preparation phase and the response phase. They are crucial, but they currently present many drawbacks that limit their effectiveness. The work presented in this manuscript first identifies some drawbacks and limits of crisis preparation and proposes to use virtual reality (VR) to overcome them. To be prepared, crisis responders must regularly organize training exercises to simulate a crisis and rehearse the plans and procedures to solve it. In this work, we propose VR training environments reproducing sensible sites, in which crisis scenarios can be implemented. The objective is to propose several features: (i) a realistic and adaptable environment with multiple training conditions, (ii) a safe environment so users can test different responses without any risks, (iii) the possibility to train as many times as needed with no further costs, (iv) the possibility to record training sessions to analyze and learn from them, and (v) a multi-player environment in which users from different locations can join. Recent advances in technology have made VR and virtual environments (VE) more and more present in our lives. They can be found in various domains and for multiple purposes (medicine, military, teaching, entertaining...). The question of evaluating the maturity of these VEs then arises, to assess whether VEs are effective for their given purpose. This work thus reviews the existing evaluation systems and uses them to build a new evaluation framework that aims to provide two features: (i) a complete and objective evaluation system to assess the maturity of VEs, and (ii) a guide to help VE designers and developers build performant VEs. Regarding the crisis response phase, the difficulty is to get relevant and faithful knowledge of the situation. Gathering and understanding data is crucial but can be complicated, especially in large-scale crises. Decision-support systems are valuable tools to help analyze this multitude of information. VR can also help with the visualization and understanding of that data. In this context, this work uses the proposed maturity framework to design and implement a VR crisis cell, to improve situational awareness and decision-making. The objectives of such a VE are the following: (i) provide a faithful and updated representation of the crisis, (ii) offer multiple points of view on what is happening on-site, (iii) provide a link with a decision-support system to identify the best response to the crisis, and (iv) offer new visualization and analysis tools to understand voluminous data.

Download or read book Proceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association IEA 2018 written by Sebastiano Bagnara and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the proceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2018), held on August 26-30, 2018, in Florence, Italy. By highlighting the latest theories and models, as well as cutting-edge technologies and applications, and by combining findings from a range of disciplines including engineering, design, robotics, healthcare, management, computer science, human biology and behavioral science, it provides researchers and practitioners alike with a comprehensive, timely guide on human factors and ergonomics. It also offers an excellent source of innovative ideas to stimulate future discussions and developments aimed at applying knowledge and techniques to optimize system performance, while at the same time promoting the health, safety and wellbeing of individuals. The proceedings include papers from researchers and practitioners, scientists and physicians, institutional leaders, managers and policy makers that contribute to constructing the Human Factors and Ergonomics approach across a variety of methodologies, domains and productive sectors. This volume includes papers addressing the following topics: Human Simulation and Virtual Environments, Work With Computing Systems (WWCS), and Process Control.