Evaluation of Decision Aiding in Submarine Emergency Decisionmaking,

Abstract

An analytical approach is presented for investigating the quantitative effects of a decision aid upon user workload and organization performance. The approach is applied to the problem of submarine emergency control. Results of the analysis indicate the importance of considering the organizational context when contemplating the design of decision aids and illustrate the implications for workload of meta-decisions about whether and how decision aid information is to be used.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1987
Accession Number
ADA183917

Entities

People

  • Alexander H. Levis
  • Scott T. Weingaertner

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Ballast Tanks
  • Casualties
  • Computations
  • Control Panels
  • Control Surfaces
  • Crush Depths
  • Emergencies
  • Emergency Response
  • Information Processing
  • Organizational Structure
  • Petri Nets
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Random Variables
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Workload

Readers

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