Digitising Command and Control: A Human Factors and Ergonomics Analysis of Mission Planning and Battlespace Management PDF

Preface

This book aims to show how Human Factors and Ergonomics can be used to support system analysis and development. As part of the research work of the Human Factors Integration Defence Technology Centre (HFI DTC), we are often asked to comment on the development of new technologies. For some time now we have looked in-depth at Command and Control activities and functions. The reader is guided to our other books on Modelling Command and Control, Cognitive Work Analysis, Distributed Situation Awareness and Socio-Technical Systems (all published under the Human Factors in Defence series) for a fuller appreciation of our work. The research reported in this book brought all of these areas together to look in-depth at a proposal for a new digitised system that would support Command and Control at Brigade Headquarters and below. For us it was a good opportunity to apply the methods we had been developing to a system that was in development. The pages within this book show you how we went about this task and what we found.

Authors: Neville A. Stanton, Daniel P. Jenkins, Paul M. Salmon, Guy H. Walker, Kirsten M. A. Revell, Laura A. Rafferty