Human-Human Cooperation in Airborne Combat System: Designing CSCW Support

摘要

Major breakthrough in Situation Awareness and Workload reduction have been achieved on the Rafale through the use of advanced technologies either for Displays and Controls (such as collimated displays, Hand On Throttle And Stick-HOTAS, Helmet Mounted Display-HMD, Direct Voice Input-DVI, Touch screens) and in crew assistance functions (such as flight management and sensor fusion) adapted to the numerous flight situations of the Aircraft such as High G, Adverse weather or Terrain Following. Emerging new requirements such as needs for more co-operative missions or crew increased protection to Directed Energy Weapons (DEW) combined to a continuous quest for affordability and fault tolerance justify that R&D activities be continued. These are performed along two approaches 1. Bottom-up (new HMI technologies) : Technologies such as Advanced Direct Voice Input (DVI), 3D Sound, Helmet Mounted Displays, Reconfigurable Large Area Displays (Big Picture Concept) and Virtual Reality 2. Top down : New requirements leading to new concepts (closed cockpits, fault tolerance, remote operations,...) Along these quite classical approaches the R&D activity leaves a place for more fundamental and theoretical approaches that are in general performed and developed with research organisation and universities; the domains that are considered cover all aspects of HMI : physical and cognitive aspects. Example is given of research in the field of co-operation resulting of research project jointly established by Dassault Aviation and LAMIH (University of Valenciennes France) aiming at defining Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) assistances.