Life Sciences/Human Factors 14 March 2011

Tammy M. Savoie, LtCol, USAFProgram Manager

EOARD

Air Force Office of Scientific Research

AFOSR

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2011 AFOSR SPRING REVIEWPORTFOLIO OVERVIEW

NAME: Lt Col Tammy M Savoie NO. OF YEARS AS OSR PM: 2 yr 8 mos

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF PORTFOLIO:

Provides international support to AFRL Technical Directorates in basic

and developmental research on Life Sciences and Human Factors

LIST SUB-AREAS IN PORTFOLIO:

Anatomy and Physiology Cognition/Learning

Biotechnology Psychology

Anthropology

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EOARD Life Sciences

Sub-Area Directions

• Anatomy and Physiology

• Biotechnology

• Biochemistry

• Psychology

• Anthropology

• Cognition/Learning

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FY 10 Research Portfolio

Psychology (1)

Biology (1)

Biochemistry (1)

Anatomy/Physiology (3)

Anthropology (2)

United Kingdom (8)

France (1)

Biochemistry (1)

Israel (4)Ethology/

Social psychology (2)

Cognition (2)

Switzerland (2)

Biochemistry (1)

Radiobiology (1)

Sweden (3)

Anatomy/ Physiology (2)

Psychology (1)

Germany (2)

Anatomy/Physiology (1)

Radiobiology (1)

Netherlands (3)Human Factors (2)

Psychology (1)

Biology (1)Biochemistry(1)

Italy (1)Psychology (1)

Armenia (2)

Biochemistry (1)

Radiobiology (1)

Russia (2)

Portugal (1)

Toxicology (1)

Czech Republic (1)Cognition

Belgium(1)

BiotechSlovenia (1)Radiobiology

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Principal Collaborators

WRIGHT-PATT

EGLIN

Human Effectiveness

MUNITIONS

Human Effectiveness

AFOSR

Willard Larkin, NL

Terry Lyons, NL

Walter Kozumbo, NLGlenn Gunzelmann, RHAC

Gil Kuperman, RHCS

Alan Pinkus, RHCV

Saber Hussain, RHPB

Camilla Mauzy, RHPB

Victor Chan, RHPB

Joel Mort, RHXB

Catherine Harrison, RHPA

Tim Anderson, RHCA

Janet Miller, RHXB

Anthony Ty, RHPB

John Schlager, RHPB

Janet Sutton, RHCS

Bill Ercoline, 711 HPW

Ric Wehling, RWG

Johnny Evers, RWG

BROOKS

Human Effectiveness

MESA

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MAJOR RESEARCH THRUSTS

• BIOINSPIRED TECHNOLOGIES

• CULTURAL STUDIES

• COALITION WARFARE PROJECT

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Why Bio-Inspired?

SPECIALISED SENSING “DEVICES”

• Chemical (most animals and some

plants)

• Vibration (hair sensors in insects,

spiders, scorpions, hearing)

• Infrared (beetles, snakes)

• Fluid-flow (various insects, spiders,

crustaceans, fish, amphib.)

• Strain (insects, arthropods)

• Pressure (fish)

• Touch (most animals and some

plants)

• Electrical (fish)

• Magnetic (fish, birds)

• Radiation (most animals –

photoreceptors / vision)

Enhanced Performance

• Flight mechanisms

– Animal inspired wing adaptation

• Navigation and Guidance Sensors & Algorithms

– Insect inspired electro optics (simple/ compound eyes)

– Optic flow for orientation and collision avoidance

• Communications & Processing

– Visual signalling and parallel processing

• Collective behaviour

– Flocking and swarming

• Structures and materials

– Ultra lightweight materials and composites

• Surveillance Sensors

– Chemical and Biological sample collection from surfaces

• Power & Energy

– Efficiency and harvesting

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Chilworth Workshop Output

• Flight Path Control

• Navigation in a non GPS environment

• Sensor systems for a variety of detection tasks

• Smart Processing

• Power- optimization and regeneration

• Collective/swarming behaviour

• Actuators, control, and locomotion (wings, hybrid, reconfiguration)

• Analog and Digital comparison studies

• Functional materials

• Multisensor integration and fusion

• Systems simulation, integration, and demonstration

• Concepts development

• Proposal development

– Near

– Mid

– Far

• Engagement

– MoD/Dstl/ USAFRL

– Academic

– Industrial

• State of Art Reviews (SOAR)

Benefit analysis

• Roadmap

– Transitioning to Application

– Pull through of Underpinning Research

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SOAR 1- Flight Path ControlGeorgia Tech Workshop, Atlanta

• 30 Participants

– Government (AFRL, Dstl);

– Academia (Imperial, Oxford, Cambridge; U Maryland,

Case Western, U Washington, Baylor);

– Industry (Blue Bear, Centeye, SPILab, Hollington)

• Funding

– EOARD & AFOSR & AFRL/RX

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Developmental Design

Flight Path controlMulti-sensor fusion

Navigation & Guidance

Power /Energy Budgets

Functional Materials

Design /Manufacture

Concepts

Blue Bear & Case Western

Dstl & AFRLBRL & Cambridge & Imperial

Hollington Design

build from core outward - concurrent activity

Addressed at the Bio Mav SOAR1, Ga Tech, Atlanta, June

2010

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Progress

Key milestones

Bio-inspired MAV Workshop Sept 09

SOAR Atlanta June 2010

Draft a Project outline in support of joint proposal submission

Set project milestones

Identify appropriate deliverables

Negotiate funding/cost schedule

Out brief the TWG

Way Ahead

Interim Activity Proposal (under current IEA)

SOAR with Academia & Industry & US AFRL Flight Mechanisms, Sensors & Power

Oxford, June 2011

Assessment of benefits

Baseline against current technologies

Build a roadmap

Near, Medium & Far term applications

Industrial Transition

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Dstl May 200909 March 2011

Gastrobots

• Aim to extract energy from the environment in a similar way to animals

• University of South Florida, Chew Chew

– Microbial fuel cell (MFC) with sugar cubes

• Bristol Robotics Lab

– Proof of concept robot

– Slugbot hunted slugs

– Ecobot1 using microbial fuel cells (MFC)

– Ecobot 2 uses insects and rotten fruit

– Ecobot 3 ingests, digests, excretes

• E coli fed with sugars

• ~ 30 mW

Chew Chew, Gastrobot

Slugbot

Ecobot I

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Cultural Framework

• Development and Transmission of Culture

• Individual Expression of Cultural Norms

• Social Expression of Cultural Norms

• Macro Cultural Variables: Economics, Government,

Institutions

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Cultural Framework

• Development and Transmission of Culture

Berring, Visual Media Influence on Behavior, UK, Grant

Rendell, The experimental study of cultural transmission:

When and who do people copy, UK, Grant

Sousa: Judgements of Moral Wrongdoing: Toward an

Understanding of Reflective Moral Violations, UK, Grant

• Individual Expression of Cultural Norms

Lawson-Mobile Mapping of Arousal Patterns Network Meeting,

Jerusalem, Israel, Workshop

Lipshitz, When the penny drops: Reframing under stress and

ambiguity, Israel, Grant

Sousa: Response Under Stress: How Humans Maintain an

Illusion of Control Over Surrounding Events, UK, Grant

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Cultural Framework

• Social Expression of Cultural Norms

Gous-The Ecology of Threat Detection and Precaution, South Africa, Workshop

Mort: Evoked Culture : Event Postgraduate Grant Competition, UK, Workshop

Lawson: Ecology, Calibration, and Cultural Variation of Threat Detection Reasoning, UK, Grant

Kaminka, Accounting for Culture in Agent Based Pedestrian Crowd Simulation, Israel, Grant

Elliam: From Animal Models to Collective Behavior in Humans, Israel, Grant

• Macro Cultural Variables: Economics, Government, Institutions

Moaddel- Theoretical and Methodological Issues in the Study of Values in Islamic Countries: Egypt, Conference

Moaddel: Events Process and the Dynamics of Change, Grant

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PRIMARY OBJECTIVES

• Develop and evaluate a proof-of-concept that enables US and Coalition Partners to access and perform training from any location, at any time, independent of bandwidth, infrastructure and geographical constraints

• Two-year Coalition Warfare Program

- Provide an emergent training/reach-back capability to support medical global military operations

• MoLE will initially focus on medical content but the resulting capability will support a broad spectrum of content areas

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PARTICIPANTS

Italy

CNE-CNA-C6F N-7

Romania

Carol I National Defense University,

ADL Learning Center

United Kingdom

Defence Academy of the United Kingdom (DAUK)

Director of the Training Army – SO2 Learning

Technologies

Defence Centre of Training Support (DCTS)

Sutton College of Learning Adults

VoxGeneration, LTD

LET Consultants

Ken Hayes Consultants

Germany

GIRAF-PM

DFKI/CelTech Team

Bulgaria

Rakovski National Defense Academy

Ministry of Defense Representative

Norway

Norwegian Defence Univeristy College

Switzerland

International Relations and Security Network

(ISN) Center for Security Studies (CSS)

Serbia

Dept of Simulations &

Distance Learning

Chile

National Defense S&T Committee,

Joint Staff, Ministry of Defense

Egypt

Naval Regional Medial Unit THREE (NAMRU-3)

Azerbaijan

National Aerospace Agency/MoD

Anti-Plague Center in Azerbaijan

Science & Technology Center (STCU) in Ukraine

Georgia

Association for Innovation &

Reserach Intensive Production

Canada

CHFS OPI for Medical Training & Education

Canadian Defense Academy, ADL R&D Lab

Mexico

ADL-ILCE Partnership Lab for Latin America

& Carribean Countries

Mexican Navy

Singapore

Naval Regional Medical Unit TWO (NAMRU-2)

Singapore Armed Forces

Peru

Naval Regional Medical Unit SIX (NAMRU-6)

Peruvian Ministry of Defense, Santitation Directorate

Peruvian Ministry of Defense, Epidemology

South Africa

School for Geospatial Studies & InfoSys

Faculty of Military Science Academy/Stellengousch

Poland

ADL National Defense University

Ukraine

International Research & Training Center (IRTC)

France

French Army Institute of

Biomedical Research

Jordan

King Hussein Medical Centre

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ORGANIZATIONAL CHART

MoLE Project ManagerCNE-CNA-C6F N7A

Medical Content DMRTI/OSD IHA

Testing & EvaluationONR Program 38/DAUK

Technology & TransitionUSJFCOM JKDDC/TATRC

S&T Coordinator

Management SupportQ&P, LTD

Advisory Team• US DoD Stakeholders

• International MoD Reps

Medical Content Working

Group Technology & Transition Working

Group Testing & Evaluation

Working Group

Technical AdvisorTribal Education

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NATIONAL LANGUAGES

American English

Arabic

Azeri

Bulgarian

Central/Latin American Spanish

Deutsch

French

Georgian

Norwegian

Polish

Russian

Serbian

Ukrainian

The Mobile Content Working Groups will include as part of their strategic plan the

development/implementation of m-Learning applications in the various native

languages since it was one of the ‘agreements to join the MoLE Project

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S&T RESEARCH PROJECTS

• Pre-MoLE S&T Research Projects

• Mobile Learning Shared Object Reference Model (m-SCORM)

(N09-35)

• Bi-Lingual Mobile Learning: A Use Case (N09-39)

• Approaches in Azerbaijan to Regional Crisis Management

(N09-37)

• TSWG/TTD Mobile Learning Analysis

• What do learners within an m-Learning Environment Need?

(N09-29)

• Understanding Cultural Differences when Deploying Speech-

Enabled Capabilities (N10-32)

• Mobile Medical Development Project (N10-39)

• MoLE-specific S&T Research Projects

• Mobile Learning Environment (MoLE) S&T Transition (N11-06)

• Language (Medical Terminology) Assistance to Multinational

Partners in Coalition Operations (N11-36)

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Language (Medical Terminology) Assistance to Multinational Partners in Coalition

Operations (N11-10)

Research Project Goals

• Identify main challenges in language/terminology

training of coalition partners that will be

addressed by mobile learning

• Research and evaluate a range of methods to

overcome identified challenges

• Identify the most promising methods make

recommendations regarding further development

requirements to address the challenges in a m-

Leaning Linguistics Library

Participants

• Grant Country: Ukraine

• JKDDC Principal Investigator: Scott

Shephard

• MoLE S&T Coordinator: Dr. Tammy Savoie

(EOARD)

• ONRG Associate Director: Jacob Hodges

• International Principal Investigators:

– Dr. Kateryna Synytsya (Ukraine)

– Dr. Greta Keremidchieva (Bulgaria)

MoLEResearch

Project

PotentialMobileLearning Solutions

CoalitionMedical ContentChallenges

CoalitionMobile LearningLinguistics Library

MedicalTerminologyChallenges

LinguisticChallenges

Evaluation

Language Assistance Needs Analysis

Research

Research Development

Mobile Learning Applicabilityand Efficiency Factors

MobileLearningObjects

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Understanding Cultural Differences When Developing Speech-enabled Capabilities

(N10-39)S&T Research Goals

• Conduct literature review of formal Cultural models

• Assess current models available and their applicability to

the design of speech-enabled capabilities

• Review impact and advances in cultural modeling

• Leverage understanding to create theoretical cultural

design model

• Define ‘culture’ in the context of speech interaction design

• Review possible impact of using cultural models to develop

Speech-enabled capabilities

• Develop a theoretical model to ensure cultural considerations

can be successfully factored into speech-enabled capability

development

Participants

• Grant Country: United Kingdom

• MoLE S&T Coordinator: Dr. Tammy Savoie

• ONRG Associate Director: Mr. Jacob Hodges

• ONR Program Manager: Dr. Ray Perez (Code 34)

• OSD P&R Point of Contact: Dr. Kristy Murray (Director, ADL

Co-Lab)

• International Researcher:

- Helen Casewell (Vox Generation, Ltd)

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What do the learners within an m-Learning environment need in order to achieve the intended learning outcomes of a particular course and to become self-organized learners? (N09-29)

S&T Research Goals

• Developing a user-friendly conceptual

framework summarizing principles and rubrics for

good m-learning course design practice;

• Investigating the extent to which ADL facilitates

attainment of learning objectives among ADL

populations using knowledge-based and skills-

based mobile learning courses;

• Identifying relationships between learner

attributes and the content;

• Identifying the cultural environment that will be

used (i.e., military).

Participants

• Grant Country: United Kingdom

• International Researcher:

- Dr. Venkat Sastry (Cranfield University, Defense

College of Management and Technology,

Shrivenham)

- Mr. Piers Maclean (Cranfield University, Defense

College of Management and Technology,

Shrivenham)

• ONRG Associate Director: Mr. Jacob Hodges

• MoLE S&T Coordinator: Dr. Tammy Savoie

• OSD P&R Point of Contact: Dr. Kristy Murray

(Director, ADL Co-Lab)

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Contacts

LtCol Tammy M SavoieChief, Strategy Branch/HSSD/J4PentagonWashington, DC

Phone: DSN:email: tammy.savoie@js.pentagon.mil