Relatively inexpensive human interface peripheral devices/software, such as natural speech recognition software, gesture recognition data gloves, wireless mice, head-mounted displays, and eye tracking systems, are now commercially available. Additionally, there is increasing interest in the development of future military command and control systems for human assistance by intelligent agents (in the form of agent associate surrogates) to make human operators more efficient and decrease the cognitive burden needed for real-time tactical decision making. ORINCON is a leader in advanced agent-based intelligent user interface prototype developments for future naval platforms such as DD-X. The integration of multiple human interface modalities with an advanced agent associate framework can provide a robust and flexible intelligent multimodal interface to increase efficiencies of weapon system operators working in a variety of command and control environments like the E2-C2
