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Distributed Situation Awareness - Theory, Measurement and Application to Teamwork (Paperback)
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Distributed Situation Awareness - Theory, Measurement and Application to Teamwork (Paperback)
Series: Human Factors in Defence
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Having an accurate understanding of what is going on is a key
commodity for teams working within military systems. 'Situation
awareness' (SA) is the term that is used within human factors
circles to describe the level of awareness that operators have of
the situation that they are engaged in; it focuses on how operators
develop and maintain a sufficient understanding of 'what is going
on' in order to achieve success in task performance. Over the past
two decades, the construct has become a fundamental theme within
the areas of system design and evaluation and has received
considerable attention from the human factors research community.
Despite this, there is still considerable debate over how SA
operates in complex collaborative systems and how SA achievement
and maintenance is best supported through system, procedure and
interface design. This book focuses on the recently developed
concept of distributed situation awareness, which takes a systems
perspective on the concept and moves the focus on situation
awareness out of the heads of individual operators and on to the
overall joint cognitive system consisting of human and
technological agents. Situation awareness is viewed as an emergent
property of collaborative systems, something that resides in the
interaction between elements of the system and not in the heads of
individual operators working in that system. The first part of the
book presents a comprehensive review and critique of existing SA
theory and measurement approaches, following which a novel model
for complex collaborative systems, the distributed SA model, and a
new modelling procedure, the propositional network approach, are
outlined and demonstrated. The next part focuses on real-world
applications of the model and modelling procedure, and presents
four case studies undertaken in the land warfare, multinational
warfare and energy distribution domains. Each case study is
described in terms of the domain in question, the methodology
employed, and the findings derived in relation to situation
awareness theory. The third and final part of the book then
concentrates on theoretical development, and uses the academic
literature and the findings from the case study applications to
validate and extend the distributed SA model described at the
beginning of the book. In closing, the utility of the distributed
SA model and modeling procedure are outlined and a series of
initial guidelines for supporting distributed SA through system
design are articulated.
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