Written by What it means. And why Distributed SA is likely here to stay.
SOURCE: www.competentaviators.com
This article by Alex Pollitt on www.competentaviators.com explains how the traditional understanding of situation awareness, originally defined as a cognitive process inside an individual’s mind, has evolved into a distributed concept that includes both human and non-human elements within a socio-technical system.
Drawing on ideas from distributed cognition, proponents of distributed situation awareness argue that tools, technologies, and interactions across a system all carry and share information that contributes to overall SA. Rather than viewing SA as only something pilots “have in their heads,” the distributed approach looks at how information flows between people and devices to maintain a shared understanding, and suggests this system-level view leads to better insights into real world events and safety outcomes