PERCEPTRONICS SOLUTIONS, INC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase II: A13-035

Description

This Phase II proposal is to continue development of an Embedded Model-based Service for Usability Improvement and Training (EMSUIT) for enabling soldiers to employ mission command applications as mission demands dictate. EMSUIT provides methods, displays, metrics, and an application developers kit for diagnosing and remedying system usability issues and training deficiencies of users employing mission command applications. We fully met all of our Phase I objectives, including the selection of a representative concept of operations, refinement of the system concept, modeling algorithm design and implementation, a functional proof-of-concept, and the complete design of an EMSUIT product. Our success in defining, designing, implementing and demonstrating the EMSUIT automated assessment technology confirms that the concept is fully feasible, and that the Bayesian model-based approach is viable. Bayesian modeling in particular has proven advantages in generalizability, maintainability, learnability, and validity over alternative approaches. In Phase II we will develop a fully functional EMSUIT prototype capability and integrate it with the US Army Aviation Applied Technology Directorates Development and Run-time Environment for Aviation Mission-tasking and Mission-management (DREAMM). Our DREAAM application provides a low risk transition path since we have direct access to DREAMM software and are familiar with its architecture and algorithms.