Situation awareness measurement: a review of applicability for C4i environments.

By Paul M. Salmon, Neville A Stanton, Guy H. Walker, Damian Green. Applied Ergonomics, 2006

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The construct of situation awareness (SA) has become a core theme within the human factors (HF) research community. Consequently, there have been numerous attempts to develop reliable and valid measures of SA but there is a lack of techniques developed specifically for the assessment of SA in command, control, communication, computers and intelligence (C4i) environments. During the design, development and evaluation of novel systems, technology and procedures, valid and reliable situation awareness measurement techniques are required for the assessment of individual and team SA, in order to determine the improvements (or in some cases decrements) resulting from proposed design and technological interventions. The paper presents a review of existing situation awareness measurement techniques for their suitability for use in the assessment of SA in C4i environments. Seventeen SA measures were evaluated against a set of HF methods criteria. It was concluded that current SA measurement techniques are inadequate by themselves for use in the assessment of SA in C4i environments, and a multiple-measure approach utilising different approaches is recommended.

Subfields: Radiological and Ultrasound Technology, Social Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

Examining the Relationship between Construction Workers’ Visual Attention and Situation Awareness under Fall and Tripping Hazard Conditions: Using Mobile Eye Tracking (2018, background): “Although the original impetus to study situation awareness came from the military and aviation domains, it is now considered a critical research theme in almost any domain involving human performance in dynamic and/or complex environments (Salmon et al. 2006).”
Measuring Situation Awareness in complex systems: Comparison of measures study (2009, methodology): “In conclusion to their SA methods review, Salmon et al. (2006) reported that, of the measures available in the literature, none were suitable for using (in isolation) in the assessment of individual and team SA in real world command and control environments.”
What really is going on? Review of situation awareness models for individuals and teams (2008, methodology): “…of criteria for describing and evaluating the models was developed based on existing human factors review articles and also other human factors theory and methods criteria taken from the literature (e.g. Kirwan 1992, 1998a, b, Stanton and Young 1999, Stanton et al. 2004, 2005, Salmon et al. 2006).”