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IDENTIFICATION AND SUITABILITY OF A NON-ANTHROPOMORPHIC META-LANGUAGE FRAMEWORK IN MILITARY APPLICATIONS
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| Title | IDENTIFICATION AND SUITABILITY OF A NON-ANTHROPOMORPHIC META-LANGUAGE FRAMEWORK IN MILITARY APPLICATIONS |
| Author | Cardona, Gilbert
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| Keywords | agents
meta-language
military
communications
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| Abstract | Humans carry mental models concerning the behaviors, looks, and operation of products, tools, and items used in their daily lives. When these items do not fit a user's conceptual model confusion and inefficiency occur. There are four basic types of mental models based on interactive activities: 1) instructing, 2) conversing, 3) manipulating and navigating, and 4) exploring and browsing. This thesis will focus on the conversing conceptual model and its application to communications between human-agent teams to best fit a user's mental model for that communication. A non-anthropomorphic framework does not exist for use in military applications such as; target detection, nuclear, biological, and chemical agent detection, and explosive ordinance disposal. As agents become increasingly autonomous and complex in the currently military working environment an effective and un-confusing non-anthropomorphic meta-language framework must be explored and developed to fulfill the need for human-agent communications. The meta-language framework may consist of visual and audio cues as pose, motion, color, and non-speech sounds. This thesis will attempt to identify and evaluate a non-anthropomorphic framework of communications between human-human, human-agents, and agent-agent teams that will maximize the effectiveness of the communications in terms of efficiency and interpretation. |
| Adviser | Proctor, Michael
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| Publisher | University of Central Florida |
| Degree | M.S.
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| Degree Discipline | Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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| Degree Grantor | Engineering and Computer Science
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| Degree Program | Industrial Engineering MS
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| Graduation Date | 2007-01-01 |
| Type | Master's thesis
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| Access Level | Public - Allow Worldwide Access
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| Release Date | 2007-05-01 |
| Repository | University Archives
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| Repository Collection | Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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| Identifier | CFE0001687 |
| Access Link | http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0001687 |
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