RAIDER™: Rapid and Accurate Idea Exchange and Retention

Current presentation-oriented methods of communicating complex ideas, plans and analysis results are not conducive to rapid idea transfer and retention. In particular, the way office productivity tools such as PowerPoint are used today violate the human’s cognitive style, processing limitations, and tenets of the learning sciences. This project is concerned with dramatically enhancing the transfer and retention of complex ideas, plans and high quality analyses by exploiting information design principles to replace a presentation only paradigm with a combination of mass briefing and active essay usage paradigm. Phase I of this effort will result in: novel, realizable information design concepts that are sensitive to the needs of authors, briefers, and audiences; a focused prototype that conveys solution approaches to the most challenging aspects of the problem; and a feasibility, usability and utility validation through illustrative use cases and operational concepts.