A Distributed Cognition Simulation Involving Homeland Security and Defense: The Development of Neocities
| Autor: | David L. Hall, Erik S. Connors, Tyrone Jefferson, Michael D. McNeese, Rashaad E. T. Jones |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Distributed Computing Environment
Engineering Knowledge management business.industry Control (management) Homeland security Crisis management Computer security computer.software_genre Task (project management) Medical Terminology Urban warfare Empirical research Terrorism business computer Medical Assisting and Transcription |
| Zdroj: | Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting. 48:631-634 |
| ISSN: | 1071-1813 2169-5067 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/154193120404800376 |
| Popis: | This paper describes a scaled-world simulation developed to conduct empirical research on team cognition, communication, and decision-making within a distributed environment. The NeoCITIES simulation is an advancement of the CITIES task, which was designed to study group decision-making within a command, control, and communications (C3) setting (Wellens & Ergener, 1988). Studying group decision-making is a two-fold problem involving team cognition and team communication. According to McNeese (2003), team cognition is constructed through distributed and emerging activities via several sources. A majority of studies examining distributed decision-making have involved militaristic, battlefield engagement, or urban warfare settings. In that same spirit, NeoCITIES was designed for emergency crisis management teams undergoing terrorist attacks within a college-town. Thus, NeoCITIES is a new and operationally relevant scaled world that emulates the complexities and emergent decision-making attributes resident in a 9/11-type of terrorist scenario. Through the use of NeoCITIES, we anticipate the assessment of a number of cognitive tools to support distributed cognition (e.g., problem-based decomposition) as well as advancing adaptive intelligent interfaces. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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