The US Army IETM-one year later

Author

Brown, James

Author_Institution

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

fYear

1994

fDate

20-22 Sep 1994

Firstpage

157

Lastpage

165

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

electronic publishing; interactive systems; maintenance engineering; military systems; multimedia systems; Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals; SAIC; US Army; diagnostic testing; heavy trucks; hyper-procedures; hyper-text; mass storage space requirements; multimedia techniques; speech translation; troubleshooting; Computer science; Extraterrestrial measurements; Hardware; History; Manuals; Optical wavelength conversion; Speech synthesis; Test equipment; Testing; User interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

AUTOTESTCON '94. IEEE Systems Readiness Technology Conference. 'Cost Effective Support Into the Next Century', Conference Proceedings.

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1910-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AUTEST.1994.381516

Filename

381516