Attention and Representation of Uncertainty

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Attention and Representation of Uncertainty

• Goals and Objectives
• Develop principled approaches to extend human
  capabilities beyond those limited by attention
  and and sub-optimal integration of uncertainty
• Develop uncertainty visualization and attention
  enhancing tools to extend human information
  processing capacity by supporting attentional
  processes

Uncertainty Representation
Attentional Guidance

• Experiment Description/Technical Approach
• Identify performance limitations (errors) due to
  limited attention resources and lack of
  uncertainty representation
• Examine several alternative representation
  methods and attention guidance, i.e., generalized
  alerting

• Payoff/Impact if Successful
• Enhanced cognitive capacity better and faster
  decisions communication
• Incorporate optimally uncertainty in
  decision-making resulting in the improvements in
  execution and strategy
• Reduction of command staff
• Reduction in training

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering