Metrics and Models for the Perceptual Design of Virtual Transparency - Progress (11/98)

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Programming continues on the adaptation of the Tower Simulation to accepting trajectory input from CTAS files and data sources. The structure of the simulation is being adapted to distributed computation so as to allow parallelism which will improve dynamic performance during high frequency sampling from a socket port.

SIGNIFICANT EXTERNAL LIAISONS:

An SBIR Phase I contract has been approved with a consortium organized by Seagull Technologies, to study the performance requirements for an ATC tower traffic display of the type addressed by this subelement. Consultants from Hughes Electronics, USC, and UNC will be involved with this project. The original solicitation for the SBIR was begun independently of this subelement but because of the close technical relationship, the SBIR contract work will be coordinated with this subelement.

ISSUES:

None.