AFOSR

Life Sciences/Human Factors

14 March 2011

Tammy M. Savoie, LtCol, USAF

Program Manager
EOARD
Air Force Office of Scientific Research

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 2011 AFOSR SPRING REVIEW
PORTFOLIO OVERVIEW
NAME: Lt Col Tammy M Savoie NO. OF YEARS AS OSR PM: 2 yr 8 mos

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF PORTFOLIO:

Provides international support to AFRL Technical Directorates in basic
and developmental research on Life Sciences and Human Factors

LIST SUB-AREAS IN PORTFOLIO:

Anatomy and Physiology Cognition/Learning
Biotechnology Psychology
Anthropology

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 EOARD Life Sciences
Sub-Area Directions
• Anatomy and Physiology

• Biotechnology

• Biochemistry

• Psychology
• Anthropology

• Cognition/Learning
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 FY 10 Research Portfolio

Sweden (3) Russia (2)

Biochemistry (1)
Anatomy/ Physiology (2)
Psychology (1) Radiobiology (1)
United Kingdom (8)
Psychology (1) Czech Republic (1)
Biology (1) Cognition
Biochemistry (1)
Belgium(1)
Anatomy/Physiology (3)
Anthropology (2) Biotech
Slovenia (1)
Radiobiology

Switzerland (2)
Netherlands (3) Biology (1)
Human Factors (2) Biochemistry(1)
Psychology (1)
Armenia (2)
France (1) Biochemistry (1)
Radiobiology (1)
Biochemistry (1)
Israel (4)
Ethology/
Portugal (1) Social psychology (2)
Cognition (2)
Toxicology (1)
Germany (2)
Italy (1)
Anatomy/Physiology (1)
Psychology (1) 4
Radiobiology (1)
 Principal Collaborators

WRIGHT-PATT

Human Effectiveness

Gil Kuperman, RHCS

Alan Pinkus, RHCV
Saber Hussain, RHPB AFOSR
MESA Camilla Mauzy, RHPB
Victor Chan, RHPB Willard Larkin, NL
Human Effectiveness
Joel Mort, RHXB Terry Lyons, NL
Catherine Harrison, RHPA Walter Kozumbo, NL
Glenn Gunzelmann, RHAC Tim Anderson, RHCA
Janet Miller, RHXB
Anthony Ty, RHPB
John Schlager, RHPB
Janet Sutton, RHCS
BROOKS

Human Effectiveness

Bill Ercoline, 711 HPW

EGLIN
MUNITIONS

Ric Wehling, RWG

Johnny Evers, RWG
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 MAJOR RESEARCH THRUSTS

• BIOINSPIRED TECHNOLOGIES
• CULTURAL STUDIES
• COALITION WARFARE PROJECT

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 Why Bio-Inspired?
SPECIALISED SENSING “DEVICES”
• Chemical (most animals and some
plants)
• Vibration (hair sensors in insects,
spiders, scorpions, hearing)
• Infrared (beetles, snakes)
• Fluid-flow (various insects, spiders,
crustaceans, fish, amphib.)
• Strain (insects, arthropods)
• Pressure (fish)
• Touch (most animals and some
plants)
• Electrical (fish)
• Magnetic (fish, birds)
• Radiation (most animals –
photoreceptors / vision)
Enhanced Performance
• Flight mechanisms
– Animal inspired wing adaptation
• Navigation and Guidance Sensors &
Algorithms
– Insect inspired electro optics (simple/
compound eyes)
– Optic flow for orientation and collision
avoidance
• Communications & Processing
– Visual signalling and parallel processing
• Collective behaviour
– Flocking and swarming
• Structures and materials
– Ultra lightweight materials and
composites
• Surveillance Sensors
– Chemical and Biological sample collection
from surfaces
• Power & Energy
– Efficiency and harvesting
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 Chilworth Workshop Output

• Flight Path Control • Proposal development

• Navigation in a non GPS – Near

environment – Mid
• Sensor systems for a variety of – Far
detection tasks
• Smart Processing
• Engagement
• Power- optimization and
regeneration – MoD/Dstl/ USAFRL
• Collective/swarming behaviour – Academic
• Actuators, control, and locomotion – Industrial
(wings, hybrid, reconfiguration)
• Analog and Digital comparison • State of Art Reviews (SOAR)
studies
Benefit analysis
• Functional materials
• Multisensor integration and fusion
• Roadmap
• Systems simulation, integration,
– Transitioning to Application
and demonstration
• Concepts development – Pull through of Underpinning
Research
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 SOAR 1- Flight Path Control
Georgia Tech Workshop, Atlanta

• 30 Participants
– Government (AFRL, Dstl);
– Academia (Imperial, Oxford, Cambridge; U Maryland,
Case Western, U Washington, Baylor);
– Industry (Blue Bear, Centeye, SPILab, Hollington)
• Funding
– EOARD & AFOSR & AFRL/RX

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 Developmental Design

Design /Manufacture
Power /Energy Budgets

Flight Path control

Multi-sensor fusion Blue Bear & Case Western
Navigation & Guidance Dstl & AFRL
BRL & Cambridge & Imperial

Functional Materials Hollington Design

Concepts

build from core outward - concurrent activity

Addressed at the Bio Mav SOAR1, Ga Tech, Atlanta, June

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 Progress
Key milestones
 Bio-inspired MAV Workshop
Sept 09
 SOAR Atlanta June 2010
 Draft a Project outline in
support of joint proposal
submission
 Set project milestones
 Identify appropriate
deliverables
 Negotiate funding/cost
schedule
 Out brief the TWG
Way Ahead
 Interim Activity Proposal
(under current IEA)
 SOAR with Academia &
Industry & US AFRL Flight
Mechanisms, Sensors & Power
 Oxford, June 2011
 Assessment of benefits
 Baseline against current
technologies
 Build a roadmap
 Near, Medium & Far term
applications
 Industrial Transition
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 Gastrobots
• Aim to extract energy from the
environment in a similar way to animals
Chew Chew, Gastrobot
• University of South Florida, Chew Chew
– Microbial fuel cell (MFC) with sugar cubes
• Bristol Robotics Lab
– Proof of concept robot Slugbot

– Slugbot hunted slugs

– Ecobot1 using microbial fuel cells (MFC)
– Ecobot 2 uses insects and rotten fruit
– Ecobot 3 ingests, digests, excretes
• E coli fed with sugars
• ~ 30 mW Ecobot I

Dstl May 2009

09 March 2011
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 Cultural Framework

• Development and Transmission of Culture

• Individual Expression of Cultural Norms

• Social Expression of Cultural Norms

• Macro Cultural Variables: Economics, Government,

Institutions

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 Cultural Framework

• Development and Transmission of Culture

Berring, Visual Media Influence on Behavior, UK, Grant
Rendell, The experimental study of cultural transmission:
When and who do people copy, UK, Grant
Sousa: Judgements of Moral Wrongdoing: Toward an
Understanding of Reflective Moral Violations, UK, Grant

• Individual Expression of Cultural Norms

Lawson-Mobile Mapping of Arousal Patterns Network Meeting,
Jerusalem, Israel, Workshop
Lipshitz, When the penny drops: Reframing under stress and
ambiguity, Israel, Grant
Sousa: Response Under Stress: How Humans Maintain an
Illusion of Control Over Surrounding Events, UK, Grant
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 Cultural Framework

• Social Expression of Cultural Norms

 Gous-The Ecology of Threat Detection and Precaution, South Africa,
Workshop
 Mort: Evoked Culture : Event Postgraduate Grant Competition, UK,
Workshop
 Lawson: Ecology, Calibration, and Cultural Variation of Threat
Detection Reasoning, UK, Grant
 Kaminka, Accounting for Culture in Agent Based Pedestrian Crowd
Simulation, Israel, Grant
 Elliam: From Animal Models to Collective Behavior in Humans, Israel,
Grant

• Macro Cultural Variables: Economics, Government,

Institutions
 Moaddel- Theoretical and Methodological Issues in the Study of
Values in Islamic Countries: Egypt, Conference
 Moaddel: Events Process and the Dynamics of Change, Grant 15
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 PRIMARY OBJECTIVES

• Develop and evaluate a proof-of-concept that enables

US and Coalition Partners to access and perform
training from any location, at any time, independent
of bandwidth, infrastructure and geographical
constraints

• Two-year Coalition Warfare Program

- Provide an emergent training/reach-back capability
to support medical global military operations

• MoLE will initially focus on medical content but the

resulting capability will support a broad spectrum of
content areas
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 PARTICIPANTS

United Kingdom Norway

Defence Academy of the United Kingdom (DAUK) Norwegian Defence Univeristy College
Director of the Training Army – SO2 Learning Poland
Technologies ADL National Defense University
Germany
Defence Centre of Training Support (DCTS) GIRAF-PM Ukraine
Sutton College of Learning Adults DFKI/CelTech Team International Research & Training Center (IRTC)
VoxGeneration, LTD
LET Consultants
Romania
Canada Ken Hayes Consultants
Carol I National Defense University,
CHFS OPI for Medical Training & Education ADL Learning Center
Canadian Defense Academy, ADL R&D Lab France
French Army Institute of Georgia
Biomedical Research Association for Innovation &
Reserach Intensive Production
Azerbaijan
Switzerland National Aerospace Agency/MoD
Serbia Anti-Plague Center in Azerbaijan
International Relations and Security Network
Dept of Simulations & Science & Technology Center (STCU) in Ukraine
(ISN) Center for Security Studies (CSS) Bulgaria
Distance Learning
Rakovski National Defense Academy
Mexico
Ministry of Defense Representative
ADL-ILCE Partnership Lab for Latin America
& Carribean Countries
Jordan
Mexican Navy Italy King Hussein Medical Centre
Egypt
CNE-CNA-C6F N-7 Naval Regional Medial Unit THREE (NAMRU-3)

Peru Singapore
Naval Regional Medical Unit SIX (NAMRU-6) Naval Regional Medical Unit TWO (NAMRU-2)
Peruvian Ministry of Defense, Santitation Directorate Singapore Armed Forces
Peruvian Ministry of Defense, Epidemology

South Africa
School for Geospatial Studies & InfoSys
Faculty of Military Science Academy/Stellengousch
Chile
National Defense S&T Committee,
Joint Staff, Ministry of Defense

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 ORGANIZATIONAL CHART

MoLE Project Manager

CNE-CNA-C6F N7A
Management Support
Q&P, LTD
Advisory Team
• US DoD Stakeholders
• International MoD Reps
S&T Coordinator

Medical Content Technology & Transition Testing & Evaluation

DMRTI/OSD IHA USJFCOM JKDDC/TATRC ONR Program 38/DAUK

Technical Advisor
Tribal Education

Medical Content Working Technology & Transition Working Testing & Evaluation
Group Group Working Group

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 NATIONAL LANGUAGES

The Mobile Content Working Groups will include as part of their strategic plan the
development/implementation of m-Learning applications in the various native
languages since it was one of the ‘agreements to join the MoLE Project

American English French

Arabic Georgian

Azeri Norwegian

Bulgarian Polish

Central/Latin American Spanish Russian

Deutsch Serbian

Ukrainian

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 S&T RESEARCH PROJECTS

• Pre-MoLE S&T Research Projects

• Mobile Learning Shared Object Reference Model (m-SCORM)
(N09-35)
• Bi-Lingual Mobile Learning: A Use Case (N09-39)
• Approaches in Azerbaijan to Regional Crisis Management
(N09-37)
• TSWG/TTD Mobile Learning Analysis
• What do learners within an m-Learning Environment Need?
(N09-29)
• Understanding Cultural Differences when Deploying Speech-
Enabled Capabilities (N10-32)
• Mobile Medical Development Project (N10-39)
• MoLE-specific S&T Research Projects
• Mobile Learning Environment (MoLE) S&T Transition (N11-06)
• Language (Medical Terminology) Assistance to Multinational
Partners in Coalition Operations (N11-36)
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 Language (Medical Terminology) Assistance
to Multinational Partners in Coalition
Operations (N11-10)
Research Project Goals Medical Mobile Learning Applicability
Terminology and Efficiency Factors
• Identify main challenges in language/terminology Challenges
Language
training of coalition partners that will be Assistance
addressed by mobile learning Research Needs
Analysis Development

• Research and evaluate a range of methods to Coalition Potential

Mobile
Medical Mobile
overcome identified challenges Content Learning
Learning
Challenges Solutions Objects
• Identify the most promising methods make
Research Evaluation
recommendations regarding further development
requirements to address the challenges in a m- MoLE Coalition
Linguistic Mobile Learning
Leaning Linguistics Library Challenges Research Linguistics
Project Library

Participants
• Grant Country: Ukraine
• JKDDC Principal Investigator: Scott
Shephard
• MoLE S&T Coordinator: Dr. Tammy Savoie
(EOARD)
• ONRG Associate Director: Jacob Hodges
• International Principal Investigators:
– Dr. Kateryna Synytsya (Ukraine)
– Dr. Greta Keremidchieva (Bulgaria) 23
 Understanding Cultural Differences When
Developing Speech-enabled Capabilities
(N10-39)
S&T Research Goals
• Conduct literature review of formal Cultural models
• Assess current models available and their applicability to
the design of speech-enabled capabilities
• Review impact and advances in cultural modeling
• Leverage understanding to create theoretical cultural
design model
• Define ‘culture’ in the context of speech interaction design
• Review possible impact of using cultural models to develop
Speech-enabled capabilities
• Develop a theoretical model to ensure cultural considerations
can be successfully factored into speech-enabled capability
development

Participants
• Grant Country: United Kingdom
• MoLE S&T Coordinator: Dr. Tammy Savoie
• ONRG Associate Director: Mr. Jacob Hodges
• ONR Program Manager: Dr. Ray Perez (Code 34)
• OSD P&R Point of Contact: Dr. Kristy Murray (Director, ADL
Co-Lab)
• International Researcher:
- Helen Casewell (Vox Generation, Ltd)

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 What do the learners within an m-Learning environment need in
order to achieve the intended learning outcomes of a particular
course and to become self-organized learners? (N09-29)

S&T Research Goals

• Developing a user-friendly conceptual
framework summarizing principles and rubrics for
good m-learning course design practice;
• Investigating the extent to which ADL facilitates
attainment of learning objectives among ADL
populations using knowledge-based and skills-
based mobile learning courses;
• Identifying relationships between learner
attributes and the content;
• Identifying the cultural environment that will be
used (i.e., military).
Participants
• Grant Country: United Kingdom
• International Researcher:
- Dr. Venkat Sastry (Cranfield University, Defense
College of Management and Technology,
Shrivenham)
- Mr. Piers Maclean (Cranfield University, Defense
College of Management and Technology,
Shrivenham)
• ONRG Associate Director: Mr. Jacob Hodges
• MoLE S&T Coordinator: Dr. Tammy Savoie
• OSD P&R Point of Contact: Dr. Kristy Murray 25
(Director, ADL Co-Lab)
 Contacts

LtCol Tammy M Savoie

Chief, Strategy Branch/HSSD/J4
Pentagon
Washington, DC
Phone:
DSN:
email: tammy.savoie@js.pentagon.mil

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