Analysis of Friendly Input Devices for the Control of the Naval Warfare Interactive Simulation System (NWISS)

摘要

This thesis describes an experiment conducted at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) during the period 15 October through 28 October 1985. Specifically, the experiment evaluates 'pull-down window' microcomputer technology, continuous speech recognition equipment, and standard computer keyboard entry to input commands in a command and control environment. Using the Naval Warfare Interactive Simulation System (NWISS) as a controlled medium, military problems were posed to test subjects in specific light and noise environments. Although the results are not entirely conclusive, they do demonstrate a distinct advantage in using continuous speech or keyboard entry modes over the drop-down window technology of the Macintosh (if subject training time is not a significant restriction). Either the continuous speech, or the keyword method was clearly superior in all environments.