Situational Awareness: The science behind the theory.

Situational awareness is a concept that is very familiar to the aviation community in an applied sense, but have you ever taken a deeper look at its provenance in scientific research and the development of the theory behind what we refer to every day simply as “S-A”? We bring you a summary of the science behind the concept of situational awareness in this accessible paper by the foundational author behind the model of situational awareness, Dr Mica Endsley.

Automation Surprise

In this interesting scientific paper, Sydney Dekker and Robert-Jan de Boer investigate Automation Surprise. A model of automation surprise based on sense-making is presented. https://www.mdpi.com/2313-576X/3/3/20

Psychologist Dr Gary Klein discusses Decision-making under conditions of uncertainty.

The AlphaMind is a series of business and marketing related podcasts, but this episode offers us an interview with Gary Klein, the psychologist who pioneered the concept of Naturalistic Decision-Making, which has become a popular way to interpret how pilots make many high pressure high stakes decisions in aviation, or when faced with conditions of uncertainty. In this episode #45 Dr Klein discusses the subject of Decision-making under conditions of uncertainty.

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