This talk will detail experiences the author has had in all of these steps. The technical data is interrelated so that a user's access to the information is facilitated to the greatest extent possible, and is achievable by a variety of paths. The IETM display device can function interactively in providing procedural guidance, navigational directions, and supplemental information. Want a single database containing all information.
User interaction is a database request.
IETMs, when designed to the DoD IETM specifications, are easier to comprehend, more specifically matched to the system configuration under diagnosis, and are available in a form that requires much less physical storage space than paper. Nugent et at. 1987 indicated that maintenance technicians using a computer-based electronic document with artificial intelligence assistance on troubleshooting completed tasks in less than half the time it took those with paper manuals. These days, though, I don't often run into a numerical value that I can't get out of a computer program. It would be nice to have MORE information about special functions in there - plus on transforms like the Mellin transform.