The US army IETM one year later

Author

Brown, James

Author_Institution

Sci. Applications Int. Corp., San Diego, CA, USA

Volume

10

Issue

7

fYear

1995

fDate

7/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

24

Lastpage

30

Abstract

SAIC and the US Army have created a new approach to diagnostic testing that is both economical to develop and capable of tackling real world trouble shooting problems. This technology resulted in the development of a set of Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals (IETMs) for a new breed of heavy trucks also developed by the Army. The original concept was first presented in the 1993 Proceedings of AutoTestCon when the IETMs were still under development and the architecture was fluid. This paper is a follow up on the completion of the project. It analyzes the effectiveness of the various multimedia techniques used in the IETM such as sound, video clips, text to speech translation, hyper-text and hyper-procedures. It also presents a series of metrics collected on the IETMs such as mass storage space requirements, authoring problems encountered and other lessons learned about developing IETMs

Keywords

authoring systems; automatic test software; interactive systems; maintenance engineering; military computing; military equipment; multimedia systems; user manuals; IETMs; Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals; SAIC; US Army; authoring problems; diagnostic testing; heavy trucks; hyperprocedures; hypertext; mass storage space requirements; multimedia techniques; text to speech translation; video clips; Extraterrestrial measurements; History; Information retrieval; Manuals; Operating systems; Roads; Speech analysis; Speech synthesis; System testing; Test equipment;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8985

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/62.400977

Filename

400977