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Seeing Officiating as a Sociotechnical System – the Case for Applying Distributed Situation Awareness to Officials in Sport
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Seeing Officiating as a Sociotechnical System – the Case for Applying Distributed Situation Awareness to Officials in Sport

Timothy Neville and Paul M Salmon
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, pp.164-175
International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI International), 17th (Los Angeles, United States, 02-Aug-2015–07-Aug-2015)
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), 9174, Springer International Publishing
2015
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20373-7_16View
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systems thinking applications sport Distributed Situation Awareness (DSA) Officials in Sport (OiS) research applications
Systems thinking, the notion that the unit of analysis should be the overall sociotechnical system, is a popular contemporary paradigm within cognitive ergonomics. Despite this, systems thinking applications have not yet emerged in the sporting context. We argue that systems thinking applications are required in sport, especially since sports systems are becoming more complex and technology dependent. Further, Officials in Sport (OiS), the controllers of the game, represent a critical but neglected research area. In this paper we explore whether the cognitive ergonomics model of Distributed Situation Awareness (DSA) can be applied to OiS systems and if DSA provides appropriate theoretical and methodological approaches to support future studies of Situation Awareness in OiS systems. The implications for future sport and OiS research applications are discussed and a research agenda designed to facilitate these applications is proposed.

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