The latest in the most popular head-to-head fighting video series, Super Street Fighter IV by Capcom, now features spectating functionality. Coupled with audio chat, players can both watch and participate in matches with anyone in the world. We describe a video analysis of over 36 hours of gameplay in SSF4. Our results show that players can deftly structure audio when spectating to transform ga...

Effective team work is regarded as a key factor for success inmissions performed by fighter aircraft in a Tactical Air Unit (TAU). Manyfactors contribute to how a team will succeed in their mission. From the existingliterature on teamwork, Salas, Sims and Burke [1], suggested five main factorsand three supporting mechanisms for effective team work. These were proposedas the ...

This paper aims at describing how to design for human factors in the technology-intensive domain of fighter aircraft. Similar to space industry, the fighter aircraft industry has to manage technology-intensive development where the end user often has implicit or explicit human factors requirements or expectations that has to be managed though design. This paper describes the specifics of the do...

Since the concept of Manned-UnManned Teaming(MUM-T) and Unmanned Aircraft System(UAS) can efficiently respond to rapidly changing battle space, many studies are being conducted as key components mosaic warfare environment. In this paper, we propose a rule-based AI engagement model based on Basic Fighter Maneuver(BFM) capable Within-Visual-Range(WVR) air-to-air combat simulation environment in w...

The Fighter problem with discrete ammunition is studied. An aircraft (fighter) equipped with n anti-aircraft missiles is intercepted by enemy airplanes, the appearance of which follows a homogeneous Poisson process with known intensity. If j of the n missiles are spent at an encounter they destroy an enemy plane with probability a(j), where a(0) = 0 and {a(j)} is a known, strictly increasing co...

A major analytics challenge in Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) is capturing the differences between fighters that are essential for both establishing matchups and facilitating fan understanding. Here, we model ~18,000 fighters as mixtures of 10 data-defined prototypical martial arts styles, each with characteristic ways of winning. By balancing fighter-level data with broader trends in MMA, fighter be...

No fighter pilot ever flies a combat mission solo. \Ve always fly as a teamwith our wingmen, who provide mutual support and m<Lximizeour ability to accomplish our objectives. It's impossible to win solo because so much needs to get done in a rapidly changing environment, and the missions are extremely complex. In order to e:\l1loit the advantages of a unified team, we assign roles and responsib...