A Bibliography for Shared Situational Awareness

During most of 2000, ThoughtLink and the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA) worked on a project using games to explore the effect of various factors on shared situational awareness (SSA). More information is available on this project. The final report is available online: Gaming and Shared Situation Awareness. In the course of this work, we did extensive research into SSA research. Most of the work was done by Dr. Albert Nofi, CNA. His summarization of recent thinking on SSA can be found in Defining and Measuring Shared Situational Awareness. This page lists most of the SSA-related papers and books we read.

  "Mental Models and Normal Errors in Naturalistic Decision Making",
Kevin Burns, The Mitre Corporation, presented at the 5th Conference on Naturalistic Decision Making (Tammsvik, Sweden: May 26-28, 2000).
  "The C.I.T.I.E.S. Game: A Computer-Based Situation Assessment Task for Studying Distributed Decision Making",
A. Rodney Wellens, Deniz Ergener, University of Miami, published in Simulation & Games, Vol. 19 No. 3, September 1988, pp. 304-327, reprint obtained from Dr. Wellens.
  "Group Situation Awareness and Distributed Decision Making: From Military to Civilian Applications",
Chapter 14, A. Rodney Wellens, University of Miami. Reprint obtained from Dr. Wellens
  "Assessing Multi-Person and Person-Machine Distributed Decision Making Using an Extended Psychological Distancing Model",
A. Rodney Wellens, University of Miami. AAMRL-TR-90-006, February, 1990.Reprint obtained from Dr. Wellens.
  "Toward a Theory of Situation Awareness in Dynamic Systems",
Mica R. Endsley, formerly of Texas Tech University, now at SA Technologies Inc. Human Factors, 1995, 37(1), 32-64.
  "Envisioning Communication: Task-Tailorable Representations of Communication in Asynchronous Work",
Christine M. Neuworth, James H. Morris, Susan Harkness Regli of Carnegie Mellon University, and Ravinder Chandhok, Geoffrey C. Wenger of Within Technology, Inc.

Proceedings from the ACM Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) Conference 98, Seattle WA, 1998.
  "Information Exchange Problems that Bedevil Geographically-Dispersed Project Teams",
Catherine Durnell Cramton, George Mason University, http://mason.gmu.edu/~partners/resources.html.
  "Information Problems in Dispersed Teams",
Catherine Durnell Cramton, George Mason University, Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, 1997.
  "The Mutual Knowledge Problem and Its Consequences in Geographically Dispersed Teams",
Catherine Durnell Cramton, George Mason University, under review, February 1999.
  "Modeling the Impact of Geographic Dispersion on Work Teams",
Catherine Durnell Cramton, Sheila Simsarian Webber, George Mason University, under review.
  "Team Mental Model: Construct or Metaphor?",
Richard Klimoski, Susan Mohammed, The Ohio State University (Dr. Klimoski is now at George Mason University), Journal of Management, 1994, vol. 20, No. 2, 403-437.
  "The Measurement of Team Mental Models: We Have No Shared Schema",
Susan Mohammed Pennsylvania State University, Richard Klimoski, George Mason University, Joan R. Rentsch, The University of Tennessee.
  "Evaluating Emergent Collaboration on the Web",
Loren Terveen, Will Hill, AT&T Labs-Research,
Proceedings from the ACM Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) Conference 98, Seattle WA, 1998.
  "Perspective Taking Among Distributed Workers: The Effect of Distance on Shared Mental Models of Work",
Pamela J. Hinds, Stanford University, WTO Working Paper #7, March, 1999.
  "Measures of Infantry Situation Awareness for a Virtual MOUT Environment",
Michael D. Matthews, Robert J. Pleban, U.S. Army Research Institute, Mica R. Endsley, Laura D. Strater, SA Technologies Inc.
  "Communication and Trust in Global Virtual Teams",
Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa, The University of Texas at Austin, Dorothy E. Leidner, INSEAD, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 3(4) June 1998, http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol3/issue4/jarvenpaa.html
  Perspectives on Socially Shared Cognition,
edited by Lauren B. Resnick, John M. Levine, Stephanie D. Teasley, American Psychological Association, Washington DC, 1993. Particularly Chapters 8, 9, 13, and 18.
  Tools for Virtual Teams,
Jane E Henry and Meg Hartzler, ASQ Quality Press, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1998.
  Virtual Teams - Reaching Across Space, Time, and Organizations with Technology,
Jessica Lipnack and Jeffrey Stamps, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1997.
  The Team Handbook , Second Edition,
Peter R. Scholtes, Oriel Incorporated, Madison, Wisconsin, 1996.
  "Research Methods to Support Sensemaking in Information Systems Development: A Conceptual Method for Bridging Thought and Action",
Melissa Sue Glynn, University of Arizona.
  "Affordance, Conventions, and Design",
Donald A. Norman, Interactions ,Vol. 6, No. 3 (May 1999), pp. 38 - 43.
http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/affordances-interactions.html
  "Individual Approaches to Studying and the Affordances of Interacting with Networked Learning Environments",
Keith Smyth and Kathy Buckner.