Tactical Access to Complex Technology through Interactive Communication (TACTIC)

Tactical Access to Complex Technology through Interactive Communication (TACTIC) is a user interface prototype developed under a technology effort designed to provide personnel deployed in the field with access to resources that typically require intercession by stationary experts with extensive training and experience. We present rationale behind a computer system that judiciously and beneficially exposes expert knowledge to novices, outline the domains in which such a system is applicable and describe a prototype interface implementation in the domain of military expeditionary forces.