SBIR/STTR Research Award
HUMAN FACTORS SOLUTIONS FOR SOLDIER'S COMPUTER
Award amount
$517,480Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
1993Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Army
- Recipient company
- S-tron
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
THIS PROPOSAL ADDRESSES THE HUMAN FACTORS AND HUMAN ENGINEERING OF THE DESIGN, INTERFACE AND APPLICATION OF THE SOLDIER'S COMPUTER: A LIGHTWEIGHT, SHIRT-POCKET SIZED COMPUTER WITH INPUT/OUTPUT AND CONTRO INTERFACES APPROPRIATE TO THE FIELD. THE CRITICAL PROBLEM IS PROVISION OF A MAN-MACHINE INTERFACE WHICH WILL BE TRANSPARENT TO THE USER, AND WHICH WILL EFFECTIVELY LINK HIS OBSERVATION, PERSONAL INPUT/OUTPUT, AWARENESS AND THINKING WITH HIS PERSONAL SILICON INTELLIGENCE AND THE DATA FROM HIS WORLD, AND WHICH WILL SUPPORT THE SOLDIER AS A NODE IN A NETWORK.
Technology keywords
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