OBJECTIVE We present a snapshot of the work on situation awareness, which involves operators' comprehension of the dynamic situation that they are monitoring or controlling. BACKGROUND Although human factors has always been concerned with helping the operator in his or her work environment, research exploded in the mid-1990s on one relevant construct, situation awareness. METHOD We discuss ...

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) became a fast moving field of research in the last decades, in particular in the context of continuously growing mobility and a high employment of resources starting from energy and material consumption to travel time and finally the human life. As it has already been experienced in other application areas, the introduction of communications technology i...

To explain what I mean by " situation awareness " I often use the example of watching the games like Ameri-can football or baseball. Since I have never learned the rules and the strategies of these games, when watching them on TV, although I can clearly see where each player is and where the ball is, I still have no idea of what is going on. Clearly, in this case I cannot claim that I am aware ...

Abstract Navigational Safety in maritime operations is a high priority issue. In recent collaboration between IHPC and SP, an AI-based Behaviour Competency Assessment Tool prototype was developed to aid instructors assessing soft-skill competencies of watchkeepers conducting navigation, proof-of-concept demonstration performed for Situational Awareness at SP’s Singapore Maritime Academy (SMA) t...

important factor in the prevention of industrial accidents involve of the ability of employees to maintain awareness of the work situation, understand the information it holds, and predict how situations will develop. in this study, we examined the role of fatigue and work overload in predicting work situation awareness among workers. the current study was a cross-sectional study. the sample co...