Man-Machine Cooperation for Action Planning.

Abstract : This is the final report which investigated the cooperative process that enables a computer to assist a decisionmaker in planning and scheduling sequences of actions. This involved the development of a new system for planning and scheduling actions, along with a human-engineered package for defining multimodal man-machine interfaces (i.e., interactions using different human senses) that can be readily intermingled. In addition to work on these two aspects of the general problem, we produced a demonstration system applying the techniques devised in the course of the project to a task of relevance to the Navy. As a representative application, we selected the problem of planning and monitoring aircraft movement on board a carrier.