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Improving Seminar Wargaming Tool jSWAT
UNCLASSIFIED Improving Seminar Wargaming Tool jSWAT Lance Holden Land Simulation, Experimentation and Wargaming, DST Group Introduce self, co-authors, organisation and paper. Introduction on work: One of our functions is to analyse the complex domain of close combat and to provide reports on the impact of changes in equipment or strategy. To support this we use a series of combat simulation tools to provide evidence for analysis. These simulation tools often have complex data requirements.
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Overview Improvements Seminar Wargaming jSWAT Introduction
UNCLASSIFIED Introduction Overview Seminar Wargaming jSWAT Improvements
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Round-table game (with shared map)
UNCLASSIFIED Seminar Wargaming Red Commander Analysts BOS Staff Adjudicator Blue Commander Round-table game (with shared map)
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jSWAT joint Seminar Wargame Adjudication Tool UNCLASSIFIED
Overview slide, will be replace with actual 5 minute or less jSWAT demonstration of icon movement, graphics and turn history.
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Keep and view all game state data
UNCLASSIFIED Goal Keep and view all game state data
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Data Unversioned Turn 1.1 Current Data Plans ORBAT Wargame
UNCLASSIFIED Data Unversioned Turn 1.1 Current Data Plans ORBAT Wargame
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UNCLASSIFIED Data Unversioned Turn 1.1 Current Data
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UNCLASSIFIED Data Unversioned Current Data Turn 1.1
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UNCLASSIFIED Data Unversioned Current Data Turn 1.1 Turn 1.2
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UNCLASSIFIED Data Unversioned Current Data Turn 1.1 Turn 1.2 Go Back
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Lost Needs Improvement Data Unversioned Current Data Turn 1.1 Turn 1.2
UNCLASSIFIED Data Unversioned Needs Improvement Current Data Lost Turn 1.1 Turn 1.2
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UNCLASSIFIED Data - View Unversioned Current Data Turn 1.1 Turn 1.2
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UNCLASSIFIED Data - View Unversioned Current Data Turn 1.1 Turn 1.2
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Needs Improvement Data - View Unversioned Current Data Turn 1.1
UNCLASSIFIED Data - View Unversioned Needs Improvement Current Data Turn 1.1 Turn 1.2
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UNCLASSIFIED Data Stacks Plan ORBAT Wargame
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UNCLASSIFIED Data Stacks Plan ORBAT Wargame
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UNCLASSIFIED Data Stacks Plan ORBAT Wargame
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UNCLASSIFIED Data Stacks Plan ORBAT Wargame
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UNCLASSIFIED Data Stacks Plan ORBAT Wargame
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UNCLASSIFIED Data Stacks Wargame t0 Event A Event B tn
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UNCLASSIFIED Data Stacks Plan ORBAT Wargame Who? What? When?
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UNCLASSIFIED Data Stacks Plan ORBAT Wargame Plan 2 Wargame 2
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Data improvements Recording all data changes
UNCLASSIFIED Data improvements Recording all data changes Attribution and reason for changes Viewing multiple data states Multiple wargames per scenario Multiple plans joined to make a wargame
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UNCLASSIFIED Goal Collaboration
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Needs Improvement Planning Plan B Plan A Plan C UNCLASSIFIED
Need to merge into the one game, either one at a time or all working on own copy and then software support to merge them all together. Plan C
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Planning Plan B Plan A Plan C UNCLASSIFIED
Need to merge into the one game, either one at a time or all working on own copy and then software support to merge them all together. Plan C
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Wargaming Operator Subject Matter Expert Adjudicator Red Commander
UNCLASSIFIED Wargaming Operator Subject Matter Expert Adjudicator Red Commander Facilitator Blue Commaner Analyst
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Needs Improvement Wargaming Operator Subject Matter Expert Adjudicator
UNCLASSIFIED Wargaming Operator Subject Matter Expert Needs Improvement Adjudicator Red Commander Facilitator Blue Commaner Analyst
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Wargaming Operator A Analyst UNCLASSIFIED
Improvement is extra players can now annotate context directly and can update each others annotation. More data direct from participants with domain knowledge and more capture points. Analyst
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Collaboration Improvements
UNCLASSIFIED Collaboration Improvements Direct interface to tool Shared data environment More captured data Better analysis
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Simple data entry Goal UNCLASSIFIED
Things from this point on can be skipped over depending on how time is going
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Needs Improvement Changing Graphics Decided to Bypass instead of Clear
UNCLASSIFIED Changing Graphics Decided to Bypass instead of Clear Needs Improvement Select Bypass graphic Draw over old graphic (or manually enter location) Delete old graphic Reset unit to plan connection
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UNCLASSIFIED Changing Graphics Rename Task Delete Line Clear Bypass
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UNCLASSIFIED Icon zoom Needs Improvement Zoom Out
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UNCLASSIFIED Icon Zoom Cluttered Decluttered
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UNCLASSIFIED Event Planning
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UNCLASSIFIED Event Planning
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Simple Data Entry Easier graphic entry Improved graphics display
UNCLASSIFIED Simple Data Entry Easier graphic entry Improved graphics display Easier movement planning Comparison graphics Many other small modifications…
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Improved Seminar Wargaming Tool
UNCLASSIFIED Improved Seminar Wargaming Tool Lessons learnt Keep interface simple Allow direct entry from participants Capture ALL the data Original image “Clean ALL the things” -
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