Situational AWARENESS
Distributed situation awareness: what is it? This article 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.
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Old, but not outdated, these two documents from 1988 give an example of how trainers can develop scenario based, table-top exercises, to facilitate learning in non-technical skills.
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The scientist and theorist behind the theory of situation awareness, Mica Endsley recently shared new research on the links between situation awareness and workload.
Situation awareness and workload have both received considerable attention over the past several decades. This study investigated the relationship between these two constructs, finding that SA decreases as workload increases. This is not always the case however…
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A great overview of the topic by the FlightSafety Foundation in their Approach and Landing Accident Reduction (ALAR) series.
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In the article below, details of an operational evaluation of a startle management method are shared. The method is similar to that described in the EASA/NLR report.
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Takeoff incident on a dark foggy night, situation awareness and communication case study
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This accident is an example of how poor workload management affects situation awareness.
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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.
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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
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This Flight Safety Foundation briefing note presents a definition of situational awareness. It explains the complex process of maintaining situational awareness, focuses on how it is lost and proposes prevention and recovery strategies.
This briefing note is intended to help the reader gain and maintain situational awareness, to prevent falling into the traps associated with its loss and to avoid the negative effects of its loss on flight safety.
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