Situation awareness and co-operation within and between hierarchical units in dynamic decision making Export

@article{citeulike:4037199, abstract = {This paper is a follow-up of a field study of two military command teams and reports an experiment that tests three organizations (serial, parallel and optional) of co-operation and situation awareness within commander teams, as well as the communication between the commander team and the operative level. It was found that most groups in the optional condition performed worse than the groups in the other conditions. It was also found that members of teams in the parallel condition differed from members of teams in the serial condition in their situation awareness. The more successful commander team produced more planning in relation to hypothesis, as well as sending fewer messages in total between the units, than the less successful team.}, author = {Artman, H.}, citeulike-article-id = {4037199}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tandf/terg/1999/00000042/00000011/art00002}, comment = {Paper discusses a microworld experiment using the fire fighting model using teams. The teams were split into a hierarchy so that a commander had to direct lower level units to fight the fire. Three different organisations were tried (serial, parallel, and optional) and serial was found the best. Interesting idea with testing the different time-scales of decision making that each rank had to deal with, with the lowest dealing with the fire in front of them and the highest having to plan and direct for priorities. }, issn = {0014-0139}, journal = {Ergonomics}, keywords = {complex\_decision\_making, multiscale, team\_decision\_making}, month = {November}, pages = {1404--1417}, posted-at = {2009-02-11 23:22:19}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Taylor and Francis Ltd}, title = {Situation awareness and co-operation within and between hierarchical units in dynamic decision making}, url = {http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tandf/terg/1999/00000042/00000011/art00002}, year = {1999} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4037199 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4037199 N2 - This paper is a follow-up of a field study of two military command teams and reports an experiment that tests three organizations (serial, parallel and optional) of co-operation and situation awareness within commander teams, as well as the communication between the commander team and the operative level. It was found that most groups in the optional condition performed worse than the groups in the other conditions. It was also found that members of teams in the parallel condition differed from members of teams in the serial condition in their situation awareness. The more successful commander team produced more planning in relation to hypothesis, as well as sending fewer messages in total between the units, than the less successful team. JF - Ergonomics SN - 0014-0139 EP - 1417 TI - Situation awareness and co-operation within and between hierarchical units in dynamic decision making PB - Taylor and Francis Ltd SP - 1404 KW - complex_decision_making KW - multiscale KW - team_decision_making N1 - Paper discusses a microworld experiment using the fire fighting model using teams. The teams were split into a hierarchy so that a commander had to direct lower level units to fight the fire. Three different organisations were tried (serial, parallel, and optional) and serial was found the best. Interesting idea with testing the different time-scales of decision making that each rank had to deal with, with the lowest dealing with the fire in front of them and the highest having to plan and direct for priorities. AU - Artman, H PY - 1999/11// UR - http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tandf/terg/1999/00000042/00000011/art00002 ER -