C4i - detailed Information on research and downloadable reports

Questions on this area of HFI DTC work can be addressed to Professor Neville Stanton.

Observation and modelling of C4i systems

The HFI DTC has observed and modelled C4i systems in operation with the Royal Navy, Air Force, Emergency Services, Rail Transport industry and the Energy Distribution Industry. Use the links below to access summaries of the work and where appropriate download the final reports.

• Field study of C4i in the Emergency Services
• Field study of C4i in military operations – Royal Navy summary, Royal Air Force summary
• Download Datasheets and Reports

C4i Experimentation and Brunel University Command Wall

The reports below describe experiments carried out by the HFI DTC using the Brunel University Command Wall.

• Download Report User Specification for a Reconfigurable Silver Command Test-Bed for Experimental Studies into Network Enabled Capability
• Download Report Silver Command Acceleration: Report on Laboratory and Field Studies
• Download Report Gold Command Wall Evaluation; EAST Analysis of Electronic, Radio and Paper Based Methods of Command and Control
• Download Report System Performance Requirements Established from a Taxonomy for Command and Control
• Download Report C4i Study: Command Wall Versus Conventional Paper and Radio Based Techniques
• Download Report C4i Study: Using an Electronic C4i system to examine the effects Informtation Source and Decay
• Download Report C4i Study: Brunel Command Wall System Design Recommendations

Generalising from Novices to Experts in Military Studies This report completes the above suite of papers delivered during 2006. These are concerned with design issues as they related to so-called ‘Command Wall systems’. This report is about whether the results gained from novices in previous studies can be generalised to an expert (i.e. military) population.

Evaluation of existing Human Factors tools and methods

Existing Human Factors design and evaluation methods have been evaluated for their suitability for applying to the design of C4i systems. View the summary of these studies.
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Development of a tool to support analysis of C4i systems

An analytical prototyping tool called WESTT (Workload, Error, Situation awareness, Teamwork & Time) has been developed which supports the analysis of C4i systems and which allows different design options to be evaluated.
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Mobile ISTAR units

Download Mobile ISTAR Datasheet

Initial models of a wearable computers have been developed as part of the work to develop mobile Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance (ISTAR) units.
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