ELICIT Multistrike: Adapting ELICIT to Study Collaboration and Decision Making for Time-Sensitive Strikes

摘要

Long distance collaboration is an increasingly important aspect of command and control (C2). It is not always possible, or desirable, for all relevant experts and decision makers to be collocated during time-sensitive missions. However, geographic distance and the associated problems of narrow communications bandwidth, lack of trust, and biased attention have not always been taken into account in the design of C2 systems. Time pressure and high- risk decisions exacerbate the problems of coordination and trust over long distance; these are unfortunately two of the defining features of many C2 tasks involving time-sensitive strikes. In order to more closely examine high-risk decisions under time pressure, the Experimental Laboratory to Investigate Collaboration, Information-sharing, and Trust (ELICIT; Ruddy, 2007), was altered to emphasize these aspects. The resulting environment, ELICIT Multistrike, uses the ELICIT environment as the information-sharing and collaboration tool, a text messaging system as the communication tool, and a multi-decision point, time-sequenced factoid set. This paper describes the design features and pilot testing of ELICIT Multistrike; examines the differences from the well-known original ELICIT task; and discusses the design of an ELICIT Multistrike experiment to demonstrate the ability to use the ELICIT framework to study collaboration and decision making for time-sensitive strikes.