a cognitive approach to developing planning tools to support air campaign planners

ABSTRACT: Our goal in this research was to capture the tactical and strategic concerns of air campaign planners, and incorporate these into planning technology to assist with filtering out the unacceptable options and highlighting preferred plans. Specifically, we focused on identifying characteristics of quality plans and how these characteristics are judged in operational settings. We used a variety of knowledge elicitation techniques in the Cognitive Task Analysis (CTA) to identify the process of plan evaluation and the factors underlying judgment of plan robustness. Our research drew on observations and interviews in a variety of settings CITATION: Miller, T. E., Copeland, R. R., Phillips, J. K., & McCloskey, M. J. (1999). A cognitive approach to developing planning tools to support air campaign planners (Final Technical Report fro Contract #AFRL-IF-RS-TR-1999-146). Rome, NY: Air Force Research Laboratory.