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The Defence and Security Accelerator, in partnership with the Defence Science Technology Laboratory has launched a new £1 million competition seeking innovative proposals to support improvements in human machine interaction, and to support computer mediated teamwork and collaboration (across both human to human, and human to machine teams).

The ‘Humans in Systems: Accelerating Interaction Innovation’ competition will award funding of up to £50,000 for small ‘seedling’ projects, and up to £150,000 for larger ‘development’ projects across three different challenge areas.

Challenge 1: HMI innovations within the constrained space environment 

This challenge seeks to enhance the interaction between people and systems within physically constrained and environmentally challenging environments. This might include: the provision of and interaction with large quantities of information and the control or interaction with un-crewed semi-autonomous or remotely controlled platforms and sensor systems from within another vehicle.

Challenge 2: AI assistive task support, AI enabled decision support tools, and novel interface modalities

This challenge seeks to unlock task performance improvements through the provision of novel interface technologies and interaction approaches and tools to support users in areas such as: control inputs, improving situational awareness, interacting with information, making decisions.

Challenge 3: Enhancing Teamwork and Collaboration

This areas is focused on tools which may benefit both co-located and distributed teams engaged in collaborative and co-operative working. Often teams operate within constrained systems, architectures, and workstations; where the introduction and implementation of new team aids is prohibitive.

The competition is looking for innovations that could be employed across some or all of the Defence domains (Maritime, Land, Cyber, Space or Air).

The deadline for proposals is 12pm on the 19th July 2023.