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Situation awareness

About: Situation awareness is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 7380 publications have been published within this topic receiving 108695 citations. The topic is also known as: SA & situational awareness.


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01 Apr 2009
TL;DR: This article uses the formative evaluation of a prototype ‘assembly’ of pervasive computing technologies to specify design implications for emergency virtual teamwork tools, and shows how practices of working up trust are supported by the PalCom open architecture, and delineate design guidelines to enable the productive integration of pervasive Computing.
Abstract: In this article we use the formative evaluation of a prototype ‘assembly’ of pervasive computing technologies to specify design implications for emergency virtual teamwork tools. The prototype assembly, called “Overview”, was implemented in collaboration with police, fire and medical emergency services as part of the real life event management during the Tall Ships’ Races 2007 in Denmark. We describe how the emergency teams used the technologies for collaboration between distributed colleagues, to produce shared situation awareness, to manage efforts and resources and respond to minor emergencies. Trust in technology is a key need virtual teams identify in their endeavours to dovetail innovative technologies into emergency work. We show how practices of working up trust are supported by the PalCom open architecture (which was used to build Overview), and delineate design guidelines to enable the productive integration of pervasive computing.

24 citations

01 Sep 2011
TL;DR: JMS provides a number of benefits to the space community: a reduction in operational transaction time to accomplish key activities and processes; ability to process the increased volume of metric observations from new sensors; and greater automation of SSA data sharing supporting collaboration with government, civil, commercial, and foreign entities.
Abstract: : US space capabilities benefit the economy, national security, international relationships, scientific discovery, and our quality of life. Realizing these space responsibilities is challenging not only because the space domain is increasingly congested, contested, and competitive but is further complicated by the legacy space situational awareness (SSA) systems approaching end of life and inability to provide the breadth of SSA and command and control (C2) of space forces in this challenging domain. JMS will provide the capabilities to effectively employ space forces in this challenging domain. Requirements for JMS were developed based on regular, on-going engagement with the warfighter. The use of DoD Architecture Framework (DoDAF) products facilitated requirements scoping and understanding and transferred directly to defining and documenting the requirements in the approved Capability Development Document (CDD). As part of the risk reduction efforts, the Electronic System Center (ESC) JMS System Program Office (SPO) fielded JMS Capability Package (CP) 0 which includes an initial service oriented architecture (SOA) and user defined operational picture (UDOP) along with force status, sensor management, and analysis tools. Development efforts are planned to leverage and integrate prototypes and other research projects from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Air Force Research Laboratories, Space Innovation and Development Center, and MIT/Lincoln Laboratories. JMS provides a number of benefits to the space community: a reduction in operational transaction time to accomplish key activities and processes; ability to process the increased volume of metric observations from new sensors (e.g., SBSS, SST, Space Fence), as well as owner/operator ephemerides thus enhancing the high accuracy near-real-time catalog, and greater automation of SSA data sharing supporting collaboration with government, civil, commercial, and foreign entities.

24 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the evaluation of 6 different computer-based training modules created to teach skills that underlie the development and maintenance of situation awareness, a competency shown to be critical in pilot decision-making performance.
Abstract: This article describes the evaluation of 6 different computer-based training modules created to teach skills that underlie the development and maintenance of situation awareness, a competency shown to be critical in pilot decision-making performance. The modules targeted basic skills training for low-time pilots (checklist completion, air traffic control comprehension, psychomotor skills) as well as training on higher order cognitive skills (attention sharing, contingency planning) and intensive preflight planning. Overall, the training modules improved participants' performance on these targeted skills. Results also provided promising albeit limited support for the effect of the training modules in improving situation awareness.

24 citations

Proceedings ArticleDOI
25 Oct 2015
TL;DR: This work proposes methods to interpret network security alerts and flow traffic as ensemble members, which can then apply ensemble visualization techniques in a network analysis environment to produce a network ensemble visualization system.
Abstract: Network security analysis and ensemble data visualization are two active research areas. Although they are treated as separate domains, they share many common challenges and characteristics. Both focus on scalability, time-dependent data analytics, and exploration of patterns and unusual behaviors in large datasets. These overlaps provide an opportunity to apply ensemble visualization research to improve network security analysis. To study this goal, we propose methods to interpret network security alerts and flow traffic as ensemble members. We can then apply ensemble visualization techniques in a network analysis environment to produce a network ensemble visualization system. Including ensemble representations provide new, in-depth insights into relationships between alerts and flow traffic. Analysts can cluster traffic with similar behavior and identify traffic with unusual patterns, something that is difficult to achieve with high-level overviews of large network datasets. Furthermore, our ensemble approach facilitates analysis of relationships between alerts and flow traffic, improves scalability, maintains accessibility and configurability, and is designed to fit our analysts’ working environment, mental models, and problem solving strategies.

24 citations

Proceedings ArticleDOI
01 Jan 2003
TL;DR: The FutureFlight Central (FFC) as discussed by the authors is a real-time simulator designed to safely study new technologies, airport design changes or redesigns, and procedural changes in a virtual reality setting.
Abstract: A new air traffic control tower research facility dedicated to countering potential air and runway traffic problems at commercial airports is advancing the state- of-the-art in aviation research at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Ames Research Center. FutureFlight Central (FFC), is a unique real-time simulator designed to safely study new technologies, airport design changes or redesigns, and procedural changes in a virtual reality setting. The facility consists of a full-scale control tower, which depicts a 360-degree view of the airport under various weather conditions and times of day. Actual air traffic controllers operate the tower and communicate with pilots, ramp controllers and vehicle operators. "Humans-in-the-loop" provide a key distinction between conventional fast time simulation and what NASA has created in FFC. Human factors such as situational awareness, reaction time, visual perception and oral communication validate new designs and tools at a significantly higher level of accuracy and confidence. Recent integration of the tower with full- mission flight simulation allows assessment of airport changes from both the controller and pilot perspectives. With this new capability, technology developers, airport planners, and airline representatives are able to make more informed decisions. This paper describes the capabilities of FutureFlight Central, provides examples of typical projects, and addresses future applications.

24 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20241
2023429
2022949
2021302
2020417
2019422