and two anonymous reviewers under the editorship of Roger Schvaneveldt.

OBJECTIVE We describe a novel concept, situation awareness recovery (SAR), and we identify perceptual and cognitive processes that characterize SAR. BACKGROUND Situation awareness (SA) is typically described in terms of perceiving relevant elements of the environment, comprehending how those elements are integrated into a meaningful whole, and projecting that meaning into the future. Yet SA f...

The notions of ‘‘situation’’ and ‘‘situation awareness’’ have been formulated by many authors in various contexts. In this paper, we present a formalization of situations that is compatible with the interpretation of situation awareness in terms of human awareness as well as the situation theory of Barwise and Devlin. The purpose of this paper is to capture the situation theory of Barwise in te...

This paper presents the concept of unmanned vehicle situation awareness and provides a discussion of how unmanned vehicle situation awareness can be defined based upon human situation awareness. A broadly accepted human situation awareness definition is directly applied to the notion of unmanned vehicle situation awareness. The paper also discusses unique unmanned vehicle aspects that will infl...

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”

Towards Autonomous Situation Awareness

A framework for tactical situation awareness is presented and used to compare current technology systems with a prototype system supporting tactical situation awareness. The prototype, which is being developed by Australia’s Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) at Edinburgh in its Experimental Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence Technology Environment (EXC3ITE), inte...

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...