10. savoie - life sciences
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Life Sciences/Human Factors 14 March 2011
Tammy M. Savoie, LtCol, USAFProgram Manager
EOARD
Air Force Office of Scientific Research
AFOSR
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2011 AFOSR SPRING REVIEWPORTFOLIO 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
Psychology (1)
Biology (1)
Biochemistry (1)
Anatomy/Physiology (3)
Anthropology (2)
United Kingdom (8)
France (1)
Biochemistry (1)
Israel (4)Ethology/
Social psychology (2)
Cognition (2)
Switzerland (2)
Biochemistry (1)
Radiobiology (1)
Sweden (3)
Anatomy/ Physiology (2)
Psychology (1)
Germany (2)
Anatomy/Physiology (1)
Radiobiology (1)
Netherlands (3)Human Factors (2)
Psychology (1)
Biology (1)Biochemistry(1)
Italy (1)Psychology (1)
Armenia (2)
Biochemistry (1)
Radiobiology (1)
Russia (2)
Portugal (1)
Toxicology (1)
Czech Republic (1)Cognition
Belgium(1)
BiotechSlovenia (1)Radiobiology
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Principal Collaborators
WRIGHT-PATT
EGLIN
Human Effectiveness
MUNITIONS
Human Effectiveness
AFOSR
Willard Larkin, NL
Terry Lyons, NL
Walter Kozumbo, NLGlenn Gunzelmann, RHAC
Gil Kuperman, RHCS
Alan Pinkus, RHCV
Saber Hussain, RHPB
Camilla Mauzy, RHPB
Victor Chan, RHPB
Joel Mort, RHXB
Catherine Harrison, RHPA
Tim Anderson, RHCA
Janet Miller, RHXB
Anthony Ty, RHPB
John Schlager, RHPB
Janet Sutton, RHCS
Bill Ercoline, 711 HPW
Ric Wehling, RWG
Johnny Evers, RWG
BROOKS
Human Effectiveness
MESA
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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
• Navigation in a non GPS environment
• Sensor systems for a variety of detection tasks
• Smart Processing
• Power- optimization and regeneration
• Collective/swarming behaviour
• Actuators, control, and locomotion (wings, hybrid, reconfiguration)
• Analog and Digital comparison studies
• Functional materials
• Multisensor integration and fusion
• Systems simulation, integration, and demonstration
• Concepts development
• Proposal development
– Near
– Mid
– Far
• Engagement
– MoD/Dstl/ USAFRL
– Academic
– Industrial
• State of Art Reviews (SOAR)
Benefit analysis
• Roadmap
– Transitioning to Application
– Pull through of Underpinning Research
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SOAR 1- Flight Path ControlGeorgia 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
Flight Path controlMulti-sensor fusion
Navigation & Guidance
Power /Energy Budgets
Functional Materials
Design /Manufacture
Concepts
Blue Bear & Case Western
Dstl & AFRLBRL & Cambridge & Imperial
Hollington Design
build from core outward - concurrent activity
Addressed at the Bio Mav SOAR1, Ga Tech, Atlanta, June
2010
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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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Dstl May 200909 March 2011
Gastrobots
• Aim to extract energy from the environment in a similar way to animals
• University of South Florida, Chew Chew
– Microbial fuel cell (MFC) with sugar cubes
• Bristol Robotics Lab
– Proof of concept robot
– 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
Chew Chew, Gastrobot
Slugbot
Ecobot I
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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
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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
Italy
CNE-CNA-C6F N-7
Romania
Carol I National Defense University,
ADL Learning Center
United Kingdom
Defence Academy of the United Kingdom (DAUK)
Director of the Training Army – SO2 Learning
Technologies
Defence Centre of Training Support (DCTS)
Sutton College of Learning Adults
VoxGeneration, LTD
LET Consultants
Ken Hayes Consultants
Germany
GIRAF-PM
DFKI/CelTech Team
Bulgaria
Rakovski National Defense Academy
Ministry of Defense Representative
Norway
Norwegian Defence Univeristy College
Switzerland
International Relations and Security Network
(ISN) Center for Security Studies (CSS)
Serbia
Dept of Simulations &
Distance Learning
Chile
National Defense S&T Committee,
Joint Staff, Ministry of Defense
Egypt
Naval Regional Medial Unit THREE (NAMRU-3)
Azerbaijan
National Aerospace Agency/MoD
Anti-Plague Center in Azerbaijan
Science & Technology Center (STCU) in Ukraine
Georgia
Association for Innovation &
Reserach Intensive Production
Canada
CHFS OPI for Medical Training & Education
Canadian Defense Academy, ADL R&D Lab
Mexico
ADL-ILCE Partnership Lab for Latin America
& Carribean Countries
Mexican Navy
Singapore
Naval Regional Medical Unit TWO (NAMRU-2)
Singapore Armed Forces
Peru
Naval Regional Medical Unit SIX (NAMRU-6)
Peruvian Ministry of Defense, Santitation Directorate
Peruvian Ministry of Defense, Epidemology
South Africa
School for Geospatial Studies & InfoSys
Faculty of Military Science Academy/Stellengousch
Poland
ADL National Defense University
Ukraine
International Research & Training Center (IRTC)
France
French Army Institute of
Biomedical Research
Jordan
King Hussein Medical Centre
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ORGANIZATIONAL CHART
MoLE Project ManagerCNE-CNA-C6F N7A
Medical Content DMRTI/OSD IHA
Testing & EvaluationONR Program 38/DAUK
Technology & TransitionUSJFCOM JKDDC/TATRC
S&T Coordinator
Management SupportQ&P, LTD
Advisory Team• US DoD Stakeholders
• International MoD Reps
Medical Content Working
Group Technology & Transition Working
Group Testing & Evaluation
Working Group
Technical AdvisorTribal Education
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NATIONAL LANGUAGES
American English
Arabic
Azeri
Bulgarian
Central/Latin American Spanish
Deutsch
French
Georgian
Norwegian
Polish
Russian
Serbian
Ukrainian
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
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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
• Identify main challenges in language/terminology
training of coalition partners that will be
addressed by mobile learning
• Research and evaluate a range of methods to
overcome identified challenges
• Identify the most promising methods make
recommendations regarding further development
requirements to address the challenges in a m-
Leaning Linguistics 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)
MoLEResearch
Project
PotentialMobileLearning Solutions
CoalitionMedical ContentChallenges
CoalitionMobile LearningLinguistics Library
MedicalTerminologyChallenges
LinguisticChallenges
Evaluation
Language Assistance Needs Analysis
Research
Research Development
Mobile Learning Applicabilityand Efficiency Factors
MobileLearningObjects
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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
(Director, ADL Co-Lab)
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Contacts
LtCol Tammy M SavoieChief, Strategy Branch/HSSD/J4PentagonWashington, DC
Phone: DSN:email: [email protected]