Development of Shared Mental Models for Submarine Officers

Abstract

Experts in many domains possess and utilize mental models that novice personnel have not yet developed. As people gain more experience, their mental models tend to become more homogeneous with other experts, compared to the novice people. Towards this end, system developers and training researchers attempt to identify critical components of expert operator assessment and knowledge. Via analyses of submariner knowledge for concepts related to responsibilities for the Officer of the Deck (OOD) task, this study examined how training may alter knowledge representation and prior of conceptual importance and how overlap in mental models may be due to amount of experience.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 12, 2004
Accession Number
ADA427805

Entities

People

  • Katharine K. Shobe
  • Stephen M. Fiore
  • Walter Carr

Organizations

  • Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Active Sonar
  • Cognition
  • Coolant Pumps
  • Data Displays
  • Deep Water
  • Drinking Water
  • Engineering
  • Model Theory
  • Multivariate Analysis
  • Naval Personnel
  • Navigation
  • Ocean Environments
  • Oceans
  • Psychology
  • Situational Awareness
  • Sonar Signals
  • Task Performance And Analysis

Fields of Study

  • Education
  • Psychology

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