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Augmenting Soldier Situation Awareness and Navigation Through Tactile Cueing

Authors : Linda R. Elliott, Bruce Mortimer, Gina Hartnett-Pomranky, Gary Zets, Greg Mort

Published in: Human Interface and the Management of Information. Information and Knowledge Design

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Abstract

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a dual-row tactile belt comprising two different types of advanced tactors to communicate both navigation information and incoming alerts, during a waypoint navigation night operations scenario. Navigation information was provided to the Soldier by providing a pulse pattern on the torso corresponding to the direction towards the next waypoint. At the same time, the Soldier received incoming situation awareness alerts regarding threat and robot status indicators. Each Soldier participated in two comparable navigation scenarios, where the task performance with a front-mounted visual map display was used. A tactile assisted interface was also part of the Soldier ensemble, such that the tactile system was turned on during one navigation scenario, and turned off for the other. When using the tactile system, Soldiers reported being more situationally aware of their surroundings and having better control of their weapon. They also navigated more quickly, and very rarely consulted their visual dispay, when the tactile system was turned on.

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Metadata
Title
Augmenting Soldier Situation Awareness and Navigation Through Tactile Cueing
Authors
Linda R. Elliott
Bruce Mortimer
Gina Hartnett-Pomranky
Gary Zets
Greg Mort
Copyright Year
2015
Book
Human Interface and the Management of Information. Information and Knowledge Design

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-20611-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-20612-7

Copyright Year: 2015

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20612-7_33