Having an accurate understanding of what is going on is a key commodity for teams working
within military systems.'Situation awareness'(SA) is the term that is used within human …

Background The study objective was to investigate and synthesize available evidence
relating to the psychological health of Emergency Dispatch Centre (EDC) operatives, and to …

Theory is the bedrock of many sciences, providing a rigorous method to advance
knowledge, through testing and falsifying hypotheses about observable phenomena. To …

Fieldwork for Design looks at why ethnographic approaches have been turned to in the
design of computing devices for the workplace, for the home and elsewhere. It presents a …

The common operational picture is used to overcome coordination and information
management problems during emergency response. Increasingly, this approach is …

Since the 1940s, researchers have grappled with the notion of a mental model. The concept
is eminently reasonable and somewhat seductive, but presents us with a number of …

Technology is a mobile and integral part of many work places, and computers and other
information and communication technology have made many users' work life easier, but …

This paper builds on and extends theory on team functioning in high-risk environments. We
examined 2 implicit coordination behaviors that tend to emerge autochthonously within high …

Teamwork is important in medicine, and this includes team-based diagnoses. The influence
of communication on diagnostic accuracy in an ambiguous situation was investigated in an …

The importance of'situation awareness'(SA) in assessing and predicting operator
competence in complex environments has become increasingly apparent in recent years. It …