ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to investigate how well the cognitive work analysis framework can support the design and development of a military decisions support tool. The effects based approach has recently received a lot of attention within military and political circles. The approach advocates a move away from a sole focus on militaristic issues, to a consideration of the diplomatic, information, militaristic and economic effects of a decision at all levels of the command chain. In order to establish design recommendations a series of interfaces were developed. These developed interfaces were then evaluated via a set of controlled experiments were constructed in two phases. The first of these phases required participants to make decisions based upon the information displayed in previously generated interfaces. The second phase of experimentation, required participants to use a dynamic interface to make a decision based on a simple route selection paradigm.
