Improving Individual and Team Decisions Using Iconic Abstractions of Subjective Knowledge (Briefing Charts)

Abstract

Research has shown that in a group decision making environment, members usually discount any uniquely held information that gets shared with the group. We hypothesize this is so because: (1) A group member already has a high cognitive burden in processing the information he has found. (2) Shared information from other members usually arrives in an unprocessed form. (3) The new information is not integrated into the decision process because it causes too great of a cognitive burden on the recipient. We proposed an approach where information is converted into an iconic representations that encapsulate an individual's subjective perception of the information; we refer to these icons as Information Objects (IOBs). In this briefing we report on an experiment that evaluates the use of IOBs in an individual decision making environment.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA465885

Entities

People

  • Michael B. Cowen
  • Robert A. Fleming

Organizations

  • Naval Information Warfare Systems Command

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  • C4I
  • Human Systems

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  • Command And Control
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  • Information Operations
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  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.