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Never blame the umpire – a review of Situation Awareness models and methods for examining the performance of officials in sport
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Never blame the umpire – a review of Situation Awareness models and methods for examining the performance of officials in sport

Timothy Neville and Paul M Salmon
Ergonomics, Vol.59(7), pp.962-975
2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00140139.2015.1100758
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situation awareness sociotechnical systems cognitive ergonomics sport officials in sport umpire referee naturalistic research
As sport becomes more complex, there is potential for ergonomics concepts to help enhance the performance of sports officials. The concept of Situation Awareness (SA) appears pertinent given the requirement for officials to understand what is going on in order to make decisions. Although numerous models exist, none have been applied to examine officials, and only several recent examples have been applied to sport. This paper examines SA models and methods to identify if any have applicability to officials in sport (OiS). Evaluation of the models and methods identified potential applications of individual, team and systems models of SA. The paper further demonstrates that the Distributed Situation Awareness model is suitable for studying officials in fastball sports. It is concluded that the study of SA represents a key area of multidisciplinary research for both ergonomics and sports science in the context of OiS.

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