Command and Control Research from the Phase 1 of the HFI DTC Programme
For further information regarding this research please contact Professor Neville Stanton.
Observation and Modelling of C4i Systems
Field Studies in the Emergency Services In this report, C4 processes are explored in the emergency services. Specifically, access has been granted to allow study of Police and Fire service operations. The aims of the work were to apply the methods developed under the HFI DTC Command and Control work package, to collect data pertaining to these services and to explore the ways in which different command structures operate.
Silver Command Acceleration: Report on Laboratory and Field Studies This report describes work developing and testing an intermediate level Command System in respect of a range of mini studies. These were carried out in parallel to the requirements specification and design of a Modified Off The Shelf (MOTS) Silver Command solution.
User Specification for a Reconfigurable Silver Command Test Bed This document details the requirements for the Silver Command function that will be added into the existing C4i test bed at Brunel University. The addition of an intermediate level of command (Silver Command) will allow much deeper investigations into command structures and the effect they have on task performance.
Generic Process Model of C4I Activities The purpose of this work package was to produce a generic model or framework for understanding and analysing modern C4ISR, primarily from a human perspective. The process model in this report was derived from a range of resources. From this analysis, taxonomies of command and control activities are developed to give rise to an activities-based model which will be used to guide further research into technological support of C4ISR activities.
System Performance Requirements Established from a Taxonomy for Command and Control This details the requirements elicited from the taxonomy of command and control developed by Stanton et al. These are focused on a goal based analysis of the steps a commander would need to take in carrying out a mission.
Command Wall
Report on C4I Study: Command Wall System versus Conventional Paper and Radio Based Techniques A study of three C4I techniques; command wall technique (electronic), embodied by the Brunel command wall system, compared to a traditional paper map technique (paper) and a traditional radio and map technique (radio). The aim of this study was to identify any significant differences between the three systems, and any improvements that could be made, from a user perspective, to the new electronic C4I system.
Report on C4I Study: Using an Electronic C4I system to examine the effects of Information Source and Decay This report analyses the effects of information source type and information permanence. The results suggest that any effect of information source type and decay is largely confined to time, accuracy and SA.
Report on C4I Study: Brunel Command Wall System Design Recommendations Report on the design recommendations for the C4I Brunel Command Wall System as at March 2006. The aim of this report was to extract and summarise any improvements to the Brunel Command Wall System, and to describe the empirically derived responses to the limitations identified in the previous studies.
Gold Command Wall Evaluation: EAST Analysis of Electronic, Radio and Paper Methods of Command and Control The aim of this study was to evaluate the Brunel command wall system based on a comparison with existing ‘paper’ and ‘radio’ methods of command and control. Each command system was used to conduct a battlespace area evaluation scenario, the EAST approach was then used to analyse network performance. It was concluded that the command wall system offered the most support to the agents involved and was the most efficient of the three tested when used to perform the battlespace area evaluation scenario.
