Situation Awareness for Navigation Safety Control

Team Situation Awareness for Process Control Safety and Performance

This paper d@nes situation awareness (SA) and discusses its importance to operator-machine system safety and functioning in the context ofprocess control activities. Specifical[v, identified are relationships of human detection of critical process cues conveying the status of automated control systems and operator interpretation of the meaning and relevance of such information to the potential ...

Situation awareness and driving performance in a simulated navigation task.

The objective of this study was to identify task and vehicle factors that may affect driver situation awareness (SA) and its relationship to performance, particularly in strategic (navigation) tasks. An experiment was conducted to assess the effects of in-vehicle navigation aids and reliability on driver SA and performance in a simulated navigation task. A total of 20 participants drove a virtu...

Situation Awareness in Traffic Management Control Rooms

Situations for Situation Awareness

This paper explores the relationship between Situation Awareness, Common Operating Pictures and Data Fusion to expose the need for Situation and Impact Assessments. A framework for Situation Assessments is then proposed and illustrated through reference to footage from the movie, “The Hunt for Red October”

Training for Situation Awareness

Need for Situation Awareness Training in Aviation In the aviation domain, maintaining a high level of situation awareness is one of the most critical and challenging features of a pilot’s job. Problems with SA were found to be the leading causal factor in a review of military aviation mishaps (Hartel, Smith, & Prince, 1991). In a study of accidents among major airlines, 88% of those involving h...