Modelling the dynamics of team situation awareness

For decades both industry and academia have been interested in situation awareness, from individual situation awareness to system situation awareness of dynamic collaborative systems. Several theories and definitions exist for situation awareness and although considerable research has been conducted in this domain no definitive consensus has been reached. Therefore, the purpose of the research in this thesis is not develop new theories or definitions, but to explore how situation awareness presents itself in teams and systems in terms of team cognition. The methods used in this thesis include simulating team tasks using agent-based modelling, analysing team knowledge using concept maps and analysing team processes using entropy. In order to remove the risk of intrusion on the tasks being explored, the communications of team members are recorded and used as the primary data for the analyses conducted. Visually presenting knowledge of agents using concept maps made it easier to understand how the information was stored and transferred throughout the teams. An interesting result showed that it was not important for all agents to have the same information when key decisions were made and that when information is not shared the team performed better and with greater accuracy than when there was a focus on information sharing. Visually presenting team processes using entropy and process distribution allowed for patterns of behaviour to be identified. Results show that while individuals within teams feel confident with the amount of knowledge they have they will focus on working independent up until the point they can no longer achieve results on their own, at that point the team shifts to teamworking. The differences between teamwork and taskwork are related to the theories of shared and distributed situation awareness, concluding that shifts in team processes represent shifts in the two types of situation awareness

Nursing and Society

The year 2020 is considered by the World Health Organization to be the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife. This book supports the visibility of the contribution of nurses to society. We have included 30 articles on high-quality original research or reviews that provide solid new discoveries that expand current knowledge

Aerospace Medicine and Biology: A continuing bibliography with indexes (supplement 153)

This bibliography lists 175 reports, articles, and other documents introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system in March 1976

Team resilience in competitive sport

Competitive sport teams are required to perform in highly pressurised situations and although some teams are able to withstand challenging conditions, many experience damaging effects during setbacks and adversity. Developing an understanding of how athletes withstand the pressures of competitive sport and sustain excellence has recently been addressed in sport psychology through the study of psychological resilience (Fletcher & Sarkar, 2012; Galli & Vealey, 2008; Gucciardi, Jackson, Coulter, & Mallett, 2011). However, understanding how teams positively adapt despite encountering the demands of competitive sport has been largely overlooked. The purpose of this thesis, therefore, is to investigate the construct of team resilience in elite and competitive sport. The thesis is organised into seven chapters. Chapter one explores the challenges and pressures that competitive sports teams encounter and provides a brief overview of group dynamics in sport psychology research. Chapter two reviews the construct of psychological resilience, recent developments in sport psychology research, how resilience at the team level has been defined and conceptualised in general psychology and why it is important to extend team resilience research to the sport context. [Continues.

Aerospace Medicine and Biology: A continuing bibliography with indexes, supplement 233, June 1982

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Aerospace medicine and biology: A cumulative index to a continuing bibliography (supplement 371)

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