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	Multi Modal Interface: navy crew coordination
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	Interactive Experiment: wearable sound system

	project name	Navy ship bridge communication
	project date	Spring, 2003
	group involvement	A group of three people Role: research, concept development, develop design prototype
	description	The purpose of the study was to understand the nature of multi modality and its possible application in real life. The project on navy crew communication is to find how multimodal interface can improve the efficiency in exchanging information.

Navigation in narrow channels presents several challenges to the crew's of large ships. Successful teamwork relies on, among other things, the effective exchange of information between the team members. However, in many cases this exchange can be negatively impacted due to the modality by which the information is presented to the user.

While it is highly evolved function that has resulted in excellent safety and performance over the years, the analysis of the navigation process found several potential opportunities to support crew coordination via the introduction of multi-modal interfaces (MMI).

The main finding was that the majority of the communication between the various operators is auditory in nature. For example, an order from the commanding officer will be called aloud to the CON officer who then relays it verbally to the rest of the bridge crew.

The challenges at this part-line approaches are:

    1) interruption management issues
    2) competition with other auditory sources
    3) audition is transient in nature
    4) much of the information being exchanged was spatial

Thus a potential mismatch between the information encoding and display modality exist.