Safety Critical Systems Development

Chris Johnson, Index

Human Error and Group Work:
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"Situation awareness is the perception of the elements of the environment within a volume of time and spcae, the comprehension of their meaning, and the projection of their status in the near future"

Acknowledgement: M. R. Endsley, Design and Evaluation for Situation Awareness Enhancement. In Proceedings of the Human Factors Society 32nd Annual Meeting, 97-101. Human Factors Society, Santa Monica, CA, 1988.

Rather abstract definition.

Most obvious when it is lost.

Difficult to explain behaviour:
- beware SA becoming a "catch all";
- just as "high workload" was.