Despite the high reliability of current aeronautical technology and safety improvements, human error continues to be a factor in 60% to 80% of all aviation mishaps. Training is often focused on analysis of faulty procedures or lack of procedures over a more systemic approach. This research explores the existence of the psychological construct of shared mindfulness and examines how it is communi...

As illustrated by the COVID-19 pandemic, risk and crisis communication are crucial responsibilities of modern governments. Existing research on points to importance trust, both as a resource in an end goal communicative activities. In this paper, we argue that revisiting classical rhetorical concept ethos combination with situation can contribute fitting responses communication. The paper exami...

As noted by Seeger (2006) the notion of best practices is often use to improve professional practice; to create research and functional recommendations to use in a specific situation. This essay describes best practices in crisis communication specifically through the use of social media. It provides suggestions and approaches for improving the effectiveness of crisis communication and learning...

Our everyday use of the term situation suggests that it is unproblematic to decide what constitutes a situation in which language happens. At the same time it seems to be important to account for what a situation is like since situational factors have been found to influence systematically the properties of the language which occurs in that situation. We are investigating a corpus of (simulated...

The communication process in a situation of emergency is discussed within the Scheff theory of shame and pride. The communication involves messages from media and from other persons. Three strategies are considered: selfish (to contact friends), collective (to join other people) and passive (to do nothing). We show that the pure selfish strategy cannot be evolutionarily stable. The main result ...

Transitions from one care provider to another put patients at increased risk of injuries and errors. A standardized approach to hand-off communication helps minimize these risks. One recognized approach to addressing this concern is the SBAR (ie, situation, background, assessment, recommendation) communication technique. Reference cards with the SBAR communication approach can be used by all st...

Queuing theory based on the actual situation in the communication system must be defined within the mathematical model of the building and analysis. To shorten the time for communication time as the target of communications equipment, the average rate services to scientific and reasonable request is analyzed in-depth in the paper.

Communication between collaborating virtual agents and humans is a challenging activity as it can take many forms and requires situation awareness, planning and replanning. In this paper we present the Human-Agent Teamwork Communication (HATCOM) model and scenario that have been integrated into a collaborative virtual learning environment for evaluation purposes.