Decision making in complex environments /

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Imprint:Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.
Description:xxxiv, 424 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6365360
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Other authors / contributors:Cook, Malcolm (Malcolm James), 1960-
Noyes, Janet M.
Masakowski, Yvonne.
ISBN:0754649504 (alk. paper)
9780754649502 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Part 1. Characteristics of Complex Decision Making: Decisions about ''what'' and decisions about ''how''
  • Corruption and recovery of sensemaking during navigation
  • Time and design in decision making environments
  • Risk and decision making, Damien J. Williams
  • Extreme risk-taking and decision making
  • Part 2. Areas of Application: Human requirements in automated weapons systems
  • Automation and decision making
  • The flight deck of the future: field studies in datalink and freeflight
  • The flightdeck of the future: perceived urgency of speech and text
  • Operator interface research testbed for supervisory control of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
  • Virtual environments for military decision making
  • ROLF 2010: A Swedish command post of the future
  • Part 3. Complex Decision Making in Civil Applications: Human information processing aspects of effective emergency incident management decision making
  • Decision making by operational incident commanders in a nuclear emergency response organisation: decision strategy selection
  • Presentation of verbal material: the impact of modality on situation awareness and performance on the flightdeck
  • Air traffic controller strategies in holding scenarios
  • How roles change when disaster strikes: lessons learnt from the manufacturing domain
  • Part 4. Complex Decision Making in Military Applications: A history lesson on the use of technology to support military decision making and command and control
  • The intuitive vs. analytic approach to real world problem solving: misperception of dynamics in military operations
  • Critical thinking in tactical decision games-training
  • Part 5. Teams and Complex Decision Making: Why training team decision making is not as easy as you think: guiding principles and needs
  • The migration of authority in tactical decision making
  • The analysis of team decision making architectures
  • Surgical team self-review: enhancing organisational learning in the Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust
  • Part 6. Assessment and Measurement: A method for need analysis before decision making based on ecological psychology
  • Operational net assessment: a Canadian human factors analysis
  • Psycho-physiological measures of situation awareness
  • Signal detection theory and the assessment of situation awareness
  • Psycho-physiological measurements of mental activity, stress reactions and situation awareness in the maritime full mission simulator
  • Measures of attention and cognitive effort in tactical decision making
  • Crew mental workload for the vetronics technology testbed vehicle
  • Full spectrum analysis: practical operational research in the face of the human variable
  • Effective taxonomies in organisational safety
  • Using signal detection theory to measure situation awareness