Alex What do you need to know about situation awareness?
We review several of the definitions and potential models proposed for situation awareness, discuss potential model implementation approaches, outline connections with other models discussed throughout this report, and present conclusions and goals for future development.
Why is self-awareness so important in the workplace?
Self-awareness is really just the first step. Once individuals become more aware of their own personality preferences and have a structure to understand and describe them, they can start to recognize how their co-workers are similar to or different from them and begin to devise strategies to work with them more effectively.
Is it possible to model human situation awareness?
Because of the early stage of the research on situation awareness, much of the discussion that follows focuses on potential prescriptive (as opposed to descriptive) modeling approaches that may, in the longer term, prove to be valid representations of human situation assessment behavior.
Is the state of knowledge the same as situation awareness?
The former is essentially a state of knowledge; the latter is the process by which that knowledge is achieved. Unfortunately, the acronyms for both are the same, adding somewhat to the confusion in the literature.
Where does the term situation awareness come from?
In the applied behavioral science community, the term situation awareness has emerged as a psychological concept similar to such terms as intelligence, vigilance, attention, fatigue, stress, compatibility, and workload. Each began as a word with a multidimensional but imprecise general meaning in the English language.
Why is situation awareness important in the military?
The term has received considerable attention in the military community for the last decade because of its recognized linkage to effective combat decision making in the tactical environment.
Because of the early stage of the research on situation awareness, much of the discussion that follows focuses on potential prescriptive (as opposed to descriptive) modeling approaches that may, in the longer term, prove to be valid representations of human situation assessment behavior.
How is situation awareness different from generalized performance capacity?
Defining situation awareness in a way that is susceptible to measurement, is different from generalized performance capacity, and is usefully distinguishable from other concepts such as perception, workload, and attention has proved daunting (Fracker, 1988, 1991a, 1991b; Sarter and Woods, 1991, 1995).