Is it really better to share? Distributed situation awareness and its implications for collaborative system design

Paul M Salmon; Neville A Stanton; Guy H Walker; D P Jenkins

doi:10.1080/14639220903009953

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Is it really better to share? Distributed situation awareness and its implications for collaborative system design

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Is it really better to share? Distributed situation awareness and its implications for collaborative system design

Paul M Salmon, Neville A Stanton, Guy H Walker and D P Jenkins

Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science, Vol.11(1-2), pp.58-83

2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14639220903009953

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situation awareness

teamwork

propositional networks

distributed cognition

Despite well over two decades of academic research, situation awareness in complex collaborative environments remains ambiguous. Recent systems-based models of distributed situation awareness have attempted to address this; however, further effort is required in clarifying exactly how situation awareness operates in complex socio-technical systems. One pertinent issue regards what the 'distributed' situational picture looks like from the perspective of each component of the system and how it differs amongst team members. Is the same picture 'shared' across team members, or do they have different, but compatible, views on the situation? This article tackles this question by presenting a distributed cognition-inspired systems-based model of situation awareness in collaborative systems, along with an accompanying modelling approach, the propositional network methodology. Following this, the paper focuses explicitly on the model's sub-concept of compatible situation awareness and uses case study evidence to demonstrate how awareness is distributed between, and differs between, team members. This view is then compared to existing team situation awareness views and the implications for collaborative system design are discussed.

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Title: Is it really better to share? Distributed situation awareness and its implications for collaborative system design
Authors: Paul M Salmon (Author) - Monash University
Neville A Stanton (Author) - University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Guy H Walker (Author) - University of Southampton, United Kingdom
D P Jenkins (Author) - Sociotechnic Solutions, United Kingdom
Publication details: Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science, Vol.11(1-2), pp.58-83
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Date published: 2010
DOI: 10.1080/14639220903009953
ISSN: 1463-922X
Organisation Unit: Centre for Human Factors and Systems Science; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99450150802621
Output Type: Journal article

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