Tech Grove Connect – How Will Measuring Situational Awareness Revolutionize the Way We Train Warfighters?

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Watch the recording below from this month's webinar.

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Measuring higher-order cognitive constructs objectively and in real time is rapidly becoming a tangible reality. The results presented in this study provide initial justification for using Machine Learning (ML) classifiers as proxy metrics of Situational Awareness (SA). Implications for training and operations could be profound.

Join us on our next Connect Webinar as we dig deeper into the authors’ findings and what they mean for modeling, simulation, and training. We’ll hear about the challenges and surprising findings the authors experienced as they began to measure real-time SA and explore how ML could identify a breakdown in perception, allowing the remediation of poor visual scans. A breakdown in comprehension could also be mitigated by ensuring students remain within the zone of maximal adaptability via real-time training complexity adaptation. Thus, mission readiness could be achieved more effectively and rapidly.

Endeavoring to measure warfighters’ psychophysiological states and cognitive functions that are diagnostic of performance has been a major aim for the military, industry, and academia alike to develop not only better training systems that enhance readiness but also effective decision support tools that save lives and improve mission outcomes. Actionable and timely insights based on these human factors are rapidly becoming even more critical, in part due to pivoting to a U.S. third offset strategy (3OS) aimed to fundamentally change how future mission capabilities and corresponding technologies are used to generate battle winning outcomes (Louth, & Taylor, 2016).

This month's session highlights the vIITSEC Best Paper Winner in the HPAE Category, "Towards the Development of an Automated, Real-Time, Objective Measure of Situation Awareness for Pilots."

Speakers

• Sandro Scielzo, Ph.D., Principal Human Systems Scientist, Defense & Security, CAE USA
• Maj Justin Wilson, USAF, Ph.D., Experimental Test Combat Systems Officer, U.S. Air Force
• Eric Larson, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Southern Methodist University’s Lyle School of Engineering

About the Tech Grove Connect Webinar Series

These are not your typical webinars. Tech Grove Connect is an interactive opportunity to explore hot training topics from defense industry partners and Navy experts. While there may be some interesting talks, the Central Florida Tech Bridge will host creative social and learning events where you will be able to mix in with experts and share your questions and experiences. Interviews with domain experts, behind the scenes of up-and-coming programs, cutting-edge topic talks, and audience-driven discussion groups will all be part of the next season. Stay tuned for our schedule of events, our curated series of topics, and to meet up in the next Tech Grove Connect.