Common work space or how to support cooperative activities between human operators: Application to fighter aircraft

Abstract

In order to improve capacities and capabilities of human-machine system, interactions between agents are inclined to be more frequent and more complex. Nevertheless, these interactions can not be always developed by verbal activities and must be supported by a media. The contribution of this paper is to propose the concept of common work space which allows agents, human or artificial, to develop cooperative activities. This concept has been implemented and evaluated in the fields of the fighter aircraft. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.