Tactical Decision Making Under Stress: Preliminary Results and Lessons Learned

Abstract

This paper presents preliminary results of ongoing research into tactical decision making under stress (TADMUS). A description will be given of (1) the general methodological approach; (2) the development of the performance measures and issues related to their development; (3) lessons learned in the planning and conducting of this research; and (4) types of errors typically made and their implications for the development of a decision support system (DSS) using a naturalistic model of decision making. Data from ten team responses to scenarios run in the Decision-Making Evaluation Facility for Tactical Teams (DEFTT) Laboratory will be discussed. Discussion of these results will include a description of the TapRoot Incident Investigation System, the approach used to analyze the data to identify errors. Ways in which these errors can be mitigated by the DSS will also be discussed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1993
Accession Number
ADA270618

Entities

People

  • Jens T. Kowalski
  • Susan G. Hutchins

Organizations

  • Naval Command, Control and Ocean Surveillance Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Cognition
  • Cognitive Workload
  • Command And Control
  • Commercial Aircraft
  • Decision Support Systems
  • Engineering
  • Errors
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Lessons Learned
  • Military Research
  • Ocean Surveillance
  • Standards
  • Surveillance
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Training
  • Workload

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