Abstract
The military strategy to obtain information superiority is enshrined in the concept of Network Centric Warfare: a modern doctrine based on the interconnection of knowledgeable entities. By increasing the number of commanded platforms, the volume of the data that can be accessed grows exponentially with a high risk to get a state of information overload. This paper proposes an augmented environment for efficient command and control in net-centric operations. Touchless interaction by means of Leap Motion has been explored in order to provide a faster and more natural way to issue commands and increase situational awareness. The proposed approach was evaluated by twelve users who performed different tasks on Loki, a command and control system for electronic warfare developed by Elettronica S.p.A. The results show a strong improvement in users’ performance (i.e., completion time, number of failures, failure rate) and experience (i.e., control simplicity, level of immersion and situational awareness).
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Zocco, A., Zocco, M.D., Greco, A., Livatino, S., De Paolis, L.T. (2015). Touchless Interaction for Command and Control in Military Operations. In: De Paolis, L., Mongelli, A. (eds) Augmented and Virtual Reality. AVR 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9254. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22888-4_32
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