Cognitive Modeling and Task Analysis: Basic Processes and Individual Differences

Abstract

The multi-pronged research program is aimed at developing and empirically evaluating an integrated component approach that determines how critical task characteristics and human operator characteristics interact to produce degraded performance under high workload conditions. The approach involves four major facets: (1) a synthetic task platform modeled on the U.S.A.F. Airborne Warning and Control Systems (AWACs) Weapons Director tasks; (2) a basic processes model of human information processing dimensions; (3) a model of individual differences characteristics; and (4) a military relevant simulation for testing and validation of the integrated process individual differences model.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1997
Accession Number
ADA339222

Entities

People

  • Phillip L. Ackerman

Organizations

  • University of Minnesota

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Airborne
  • Airborne Warning And Control System
  • Control Systems
  • Educational Psychology
  • Information Processing
  • Minnesota
  • Personality
  • Platforms
  • Psychological Phenomena And Processes
  • Psychology
  • Simulations
  • Task Performance And Analysis
  • Universities
  • Validation
  • Workload

Readers

  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.