The Role of Shared Mental Models in Developing Team Situational Awareness: Implications for Training

Abstract

This paper examines a skill that is critical to performance in complex team environments - team situational awareness. Specifically, it describes how the concept of shared mental models can be used to explain team situational awareness. A model is presented which explains how shared mental models are transformed into team situational awareness to enable effective team performance in dynamic task situations. Potential training strategies for enhancing team situational awareness are derived from this model and are discussed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2017
Accession Number
AD1120672

Entities

People

  • Eduardo Salas
  • Janis A. Cannon-bowers
  • Renee J. Stout

Organizations

  • Naval Air Warfare Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Aerial Warfare
  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Cognitive Science
  • Cognitive Systems Engineering
  • Command And Control
  • Complex Systems
  • Educational Psychology
  • Flight Crews
  • Flight Simulations
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Human-Machine Interaction
  • Information Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Information Transfer
  • Measurement
  • Pilots
  • Psychology
  • Simulations
  • Situational Awareness
  • Students
  • Task Performance And Analysis
  • Trainees
  • Training
  • Warfare

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  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.