Applying adaptive control and display characteristics to future air force crew stations

The Human Effectiveness Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory is developing and evaluating human-machine interface concepts to enhance over all weapon system performance by embedding knowledge of the operator's stat e inside the interface, enabling the interface to make informed, automated decisions regarding many of the interface's information management display characteristics. Some of these characteristics include information modality , spatial arrangement, and temporal organization. By increasing the ability of the interface to respond, or adapt, to the changing requirements of the human operator in real time-in essence closing the loop-the interface prov ides intuitive information management to the operator and provides real-tim e human engineering.