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Measuring team situation awareness in decentralized command and control environments.

Jamie C Gorman1, Nancy J Cooke, Jennifer L Winner

  • 1Department of Psychology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, USA. jagorman@nmsu.edu

Ergonomics
|September 30, 2006
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This study redefines team situation awareness in complex, decentralized military settings. It proposes a new framework focusing on team interactions rather than individual knowledge for better coordinated awareness.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Systems Engineering
  • Military Operations Research
  • Human-Computer Interaction

Background:

  • Decentralized command and control (C2) systems present significant complexity and dynamic challenges.
  • Effective team situation awareness is crucial for coordinating heterogeneous players in networked environments.
  • Existing models often focus on individual awareness, potentially overlooking team-level emergent properties.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To re-examine team situation awareness in decentralized C2 settings.
  • To propose an alternative to individual-oriented, knowledge-based constructs.
  • To introduce a theoretical framework for a process-based measure of team awareness.

Main Methods:

  • Conceptual analysis of team situation awareness in distributed systems.

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  • Theoretical framework development for team interaction-based phenomena.
  • Outline of a process-based measure: 'coordinated awareness of situations by teams'.

    • Main Results:

    • Team situation awareness in decentralized systems is better understood as an interaction-based phenomenon.
    • Individual awareness alone may be insufficient for holistic team awareness.
    • A novel framework, 'coordinated awareness of situations by teams,' is proposed.

    Conclusions:

    • Team situation awareness in decentralized C2 is an emergent property of team interactions.
    • The proposed framework offers a new perspective beyond individual cognition.
    • This research provides a foundation for developing process-based measures for team awareness in complex operational environments.