HYBRID BRUSH SEAL CAPABLE OF REVERSE ROTATION

This Phase II effort will research, develop, and evaluate a prototype SuperManual, a personally adaptive electronic maintenance manual (IETM) that is automatically constructed from ordinary manuals. It will accomplish this by combining and advancing twostate-of-art technologies for adaptive text search and presentation. (1) Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA), an automatic machine-learning technology that accurately simulates human meaning of texts. (2) The user-tested and application-proven functionality andfeatures of the Bellcore SuperBook hypertext browser.The project will make intensive use of iterative empirical usefulness and usability testing. The initial development and test vehicle is a version-0 prototype developed in Phase I that incorporates many of the functionalities and design principles fromSuperBook as well as early-stage LSA applications. The project will integrate these with other new techniques based on recent and ongoing research and innovation in information organization and presentation, along with enabling advances in software andcomputing machinery. The Phase II prototype will be implemented as a web-based fully functional system that can serve as a design concept base for productization of a wide range of Navy, ADL, and commercial applications to be delivered by Internet or bystand-alone, hand-held, or wearable devices.