ENHANCED VIDEO FOR OLDER ADULTS WITH LOW VISION

Not Available Army Command and Control facilities need the ability to function more effectively, with smaller staffs spread over a geographically dispersed area. Their staff officers must fully comprehend a constantly changing environment, assessing the potential presence, magnitude, and intentions of threats. They must also constantly monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of their actions, reacting and re-planning missions when necessary. This project will create a distributed information visualization system that presents to the command post staff a single, unified view of the mission space. This will provide officers with a virtual environment that represents the real world, can be readily understood, requires little cognitive effort to interpret, and creates minimal distractions from the tactical situation. The visualization system will interact with a conventional C2 application, allowing users a view of the C2 application's representation of the world, and allowing staff to collaboratively work together during mission planning and execution. BENEFITS: Successful completion of this project will allow multiple users to effectively work together from different locations. Potential commercial applications of this technology include similar systems for architecture and engineering design teams, and emergency and disaster response.