Effects of Practice and Memory Aiding on Decision Performance and Information Search in Command and Control

Abstract

A major issue in the performance of complex man-machine systems concerns the human decision processes in such systems. Complex man-machine systems share at least two essential features. First, the amount of information flow that is used for the decision making process is very large and the variables representing the information are directly or indirectly connected by a relational network which is often only partially known to the decision maker. Second, the decisions in these systems have to be made within a restricted amount of time. As a result human operators are often put in a situation of time pressure. High information flow and time pressure are two main characteristics of current complex man-machine systems, examples are command and control (C2) in military units, fire fighting units, medical teams and business dealing rooms,

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2001
Accession Number
ADP010443

Entities

People

  • Peter H. Roelofsma

Organizations

  • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Bankruptcy
  • Cognition
  • Cognitive Workload
  • Command And Control
  • Commerce
  • Commodities
  • Engineering
  • Environment
  • Experimental Design
  • Human-Machine Systems
  • Information Processing
  • Judgment
  • Money
  • Motor Skills
  • Psychology
  • Simulations
  • Statistical Analysis

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control