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Designing for Situation Awareness

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ISBN-10: 074840967X

ISBN-13: 9780748409679

Edition: 2003

Authors: Terrence Sullivan, John Frank, Mica R. Endsley

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Enhancing situational awareness is a major design goal for projects in many fields, including aviation, medicine and space. This work helps designers understand how people acquire and interpret information and appreciate the factors that undermine the process.
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Book details

List price: $75.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: CRC Press
Publication date: 7/10/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Terrence Sullivan is a senior health service leader in Canada who has led Cancer Care Ontario for much of the last decade. Jean-Louis Denis is a professor at the École nationale d’administration publique.

Preface
Understanding Situation Awareness in System Design
User-centered Design
What is Situation Awareness?
SA Demons: The Enemies of Situation Awareness
The Design Process
Creating Situation Awareness-Oriented Designs
Determining SA Requirements
Principles of Designing for SA
Confidence and Uncertainty in SA and Decision Making
Dealing with Complexity
Alarms, Diagnosis, and SA
Automation and Situation Awareness
Designing to Support SA for Multiple and Distributed Operators
Completing the Design Cycle
Evaluating Design Concepts for SA
Applying SA-oriented Design to Complex Systems
Goal-directed Task Analysis for Commercial Airline Pilots
References
Index