
A. HUMAN ABILITY REQUIREMENTS REVIEW
In 2005, McDonough and Strom used the HARs taxonomy to identify 27
skills required to perform CFF tasks. Of the 27 skills, 12 were identified as
cognitive skills and are listed in the top portion of Table 1.
Specific knowledge / skills
Table 1. Cognitive and specific knowledge / skills needed to perform CFF tasks
(After McDonough & Strom, 2005)
After their analysis, which is detailed on page 20 of The Forward Observer
Personal Computer Simulator (FOPCSIM) 2, they concluded that the FOPCSim
software simulated CFF tasks as related to cognitive and specific knowledge /
skills mapped well to the actual real world CFF tasks that require cognitive
abilities and specific knowledge / skills. The results supported similar findings by
Brannon and Villandre, who in 2002 concluded that:
… the FOPCSim user must perform the same steps to determine
target location and formulate the call for fire as they would in the
real world. FOPCSim maintains cognitive fidelity to the real task,
but sacrifices physical fidelity. The performance differences are due
to the physical interface and not the cognitive element. (Brannon &
Villandre, 2002)
These results establish that CFF cognitive tasks can be effectively incorporated
into a training simulation. Both previous versions of this software were developed
for, and ran on, desktop or laptop devices that were typical of that period. In
2005, the year McDonough and Strom developed FOPCSim 2, Apple released
the PowerBook G4, a laptop with 1.67 GHz G4 processor and 512 MB of RAM
(Norr, 2006). In late 2012 Apple released the 4
th
generation iPad, which shipped
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