SmartStaff: A Support Concept for Staff Planning

Abstract

A new concept has been evaluated to support decision making in teams. The concept encompasses a shared representation and interactive use of planning information in a team environment, and consists of individual workplaces, generation and representation of ideas, and shared interactive large screen displays. This so-called SmartStaff concept has been evaluated during a simulated operation by the Task Group Staff of the Royal Netherlands Navy. By means of questionnaires the staff members were asked to assess their current work environment and the potentials of SmartStaff. The results show that the concept provides better general support for group decision making. SmartStaff supported better the presentation and conveyance of ideas, facilitated time management and decreased the ambiguities of the plans presented. However, the quality of the final plan did not improve. Team decision making, Team Planning, Group Support Systems, Task Group Staff

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADP010687

Entities

People

  • Pieter Hamaker
  • Wilfried M. Post

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Battle Management
  • Command And Control
  • Complex Systems
  • Computers
  • Decision Support Systems
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Engineering
  • Environment
  • Geographic Regions
  • Information Systems
  • Observers
  • Software Development
  • Systems Engineering
  • Task Performance And Analysis
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Training
  • Video Teleconferencing

Readers

  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.