Het effect van gemeenschappelijke kennis op teambesluitvorming in een Command and Control taak (The Effect of Shared Knowledge on Team Decision Making in a Command and Control Task).
Abstract
The effect of shared knowledge on team decision making in Command and Control tasks was investigated in the present research. In a simulated C2-task 22 teams of 2 subjects each played 16 scenarios. The scenarios varied in the disturbance of communication between team members and in whether these were routine or non-routine, that is whether knowledge acquired during training could be applied or not. In half of the teams both team members possessed knowledge for detecting threat patterns, in the other half of the teams only one team member possessed that knowledge and he or she had to explicitly instruct the other team member to detect threats. The results showed that teams in which knowledge was shared between team members performed better than teams in which knowledge was not shared. This 'shared knowledge effect' was strongest in those situations in which communication was disturbed. The effect was absent in non-routine scenarios. There was, however, a positive effect of shared knowledge on the quick dissemination of threat reports in routine scenarios. We conclude that sharing specialist knowledge, such as required for threat assessment, can have positive effects on team decision making, particularly in situations in which the communication between team members is degraded.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 17, 1996
- Accession Number
- ADA321028
Entities
People
- E. R. Koster
- J. M. Schraagen