Defining and Measuring Shared Situational Awareness

Report
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This report is an in-depth discussion of various ways to define situational awareness and shared situational awareness (SSA). It's based on a literature and online review of writings and comments by leading experts in the field.

The report then explores different factors that can degrade or enhance situational awareness and issues involved in measuring SSA.

A list of additional SSA-related articles and books can be found at http://www.thoughtlink.com/SSABiblio.htm

This report is a companion document to Gaming and Shared Situation Awareness, which describes the use of an online distributed game to explore factors affecting SSA and how they can be measured. More information about the project for which these two reports were written can be found here.

Team Concepts

Albert A. Nofi, Center for Naval Analyses

November 2000