Posted: 12-10-2024

Title: XR for Shared Mission Planning, Analysis, and Situational Awareness

Location: ARL West

Description: Technologies like Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality (collectively XR) create new opportunities to help people understand complex, quickly changing, and highly uncertain information. Research under this project will help us understand how to effectively and efficiently portray information to people and groups to support fast, accurate decision-making, creativity, and adaptability.

Specific topics might include:

• Dynamic filtering, contextual zoom, and information summarization for individual and group awareness
• Uncertainty portrayal and expression
• Interacting with new kinds of information
• Human/Autonomy Interaction in XR

Requirements: Technical skills that might be useful: Unity, C#, JavaScript, Python; experimental design, human subjects research, data analysis, probability, statistics, scientific writing.

Levels: Multiple Classifications

Required Major(s): Computer Science, Human/Computer Interaction, Psychology, UI/UX, Game Design, and related fields