Interaction with Experiences

DARPA recognizes the need to capture and transform human experience and, based on those experiences and incoming information, develop a schedule of actions to augment the cognitive abilities of humans. One reason for capturing human experience is toalleviate the increasing number of demands on the warfighter who has a limited cognitive capacity. Another reason for capturing human experience is to allow knowbots to perform the work of the warfighter on the battlefield.GroupSystems.com proposes to conduct a feasibility analysis for an integrated online open-architecture software environment that will augment the cognitive abilities of warfighters as they work individually or together, assisted by knowbots, to make senseof circumstances and control events on the distant battlefield. We believe that by doing so, we can better prepare the warfighter so that he can take a proactive rather than reactive role on the battlefield, improving his chances of survival. Any industry that can benefit from improved group dynamics, can benefit from BattleSpace. This is because the product suite will be flexible and scalable, making it ideal to develop customized products. One can add domain specific behavioral knowledgethrough unique authoring tools, ensuring a tailored environment to support group work.