Tactical Access to Complex Technology through Interactive Communication (TACTIC)

Abstract

Tactical Access to Complex Technology through Interactive Communication (TACTIC) is a user interface prototype developed under a technology effort designed to provide personnel deployed in the field with access to resources that typically require intercession by stationary experts with extensive training and experience. We present rationale behind a computer system that judiciously and beneficially exposes expert knowledge to novices, outline the domains in which such a system is applicable and describe a prototype interface implementation in the domain of military expeditionary forces.

Foundations of Augmented Cognition

“…The first part of the challenge is enabling queries to be expressed in tactical language by presenting tactical vocabulary as a front end to queries that contain logic gleaned from intelligence experts (Samoylov et at., 2009). The first part of the challenge is enabling queries to be expressed in tactical language by presenting tactical vocabulary as a front end to queries that contain logic gleaned from intelligence experts (Samoylov et at., 2009).…”

The Information Exoskeleton: Augmenting Human Interaction with Information Systems

“…We have been investigating how to most effectively express information that is typically requested and used by intelligence analysts in a manner that is consistent with the tactical language and perspective of a warfighter on patrol. The first part of the challenge is enabling queries to be expressed in tactical language by presenting tactical vocabulary as a front end to queries that contain logic gleaned from intelligence experts (Samoylov et at., 2009). It also requires an understanding of tactical tasks to enable the presentation of different types of data from multiple data sources in a manner that is correlated and filtered to match the task goals that the warfighter is trying to accomplish.…”