Assessment of the Tadmus DSS with Work Domain Analysis
Catherine Marie Burns, David Bryant, Bruce A. Chalmers · Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting · 2002
We applied Work Domain Analysis (WDA) to the evaluation of a military decision support system (DSS) developed as part of the Tactical Decision Making Under Stress (TADMUS) project. The purpose of the evaluation was to assess the degree of fit of the TADMUS DSS, designed for a U.S. naval environment, to the command and control of the Canadian Navy's HALIFAX Class frigate, a different environment. Using work domain models developed for the HALIFAX Class ship, we compared the TADMUS DSS against these models using Functional Information Profiles. Results of the analysis are discussed, as well as the appropriateness of using WDA as a tool in the system evaluation process.