Improving a decision maker’s1 situational awareness of the cyber domain isn’t greatly different than enabling situation awareness in more traditional domains2. Situation awareness necessitates working with processes capable of identifying domain specific activities as well as processes capable of identifying activities that cross domains. These processes depend on the context of the environment...

Free flight represents a major change in the way that aircraft may be handled in the U.S. National Airspace System. It has the potential of significantly increasing airspace utilization and thus improving aircraft throughput. The degree to which these objectives can be met, however, without compromising aircraft safety, depends on establishing appropriate changes in the air traffic control syst...

Aeronautics procedures are used as prescribed action lists to help human operators remember and follow mandatory steps that guarantee safety, workload and performance criteria. A study of the use of procedures in the civil aviation domain surveyed 207 pilots using four investigation methods, including the observation of 140 hours of full-flight simulator. The results of this study are used to a...

Cyber analysis is a complex task that requires the coordination of a large sociotechnical system of human analysts working together with technology. Adequate situation awareness of such a complex system requires more than aggregate situation awareness of individuals. Teamwork in the form of communication and information coordination is at the heart of team-level situation awareness. In this pos...

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) became a fast moving field of research in the last decades, in particular in the context of continuously growing mobility and a high employment of resources starting from energy and material consumption to travel time and finally the human life. As it has already been experienced in other application areas, the introduction of communications technology i...

To explain what I mean by " situation awareness " I often use the example of watching the games like Ameri-can football or baseball. Since I have never learned the rules and the strategies of these games, when watching them on TV, although I can clearly see where each player is and where the ball is, I still have no idea of what is going on. Clearly, in this case I cannot claim that I am aware ...

This paper offers insights to how cyber security analysts establish and maintain situation awareness of a large computer network. Through a series of interviews, observations, and a card sorting activity, we examined the questions analysts asked themselves during a network event. We present the results of our work as a taxonomy of cyber awareness questions that represents a mental model of situ...

Situation awareness is a crucial factor in decisionmaking. It involves monitoring and identification of relationships among the state changing objects in collaborative dynamic environments. In the domain of airport security a critical need is to support security operators in real-time management of risky airside scenarios. This work relies on a fuzzy cognitive ontology-based approach to model s...

Information overload is a severe problem for human operators of large-scale control systems, for instance, in road traffic management. In order to determine a complete and coherent view of the overall situation (i. e., gain situation awareness), an operator of such a system must consider various heterogeneous sources providing streams of information about a large number of real-world objects. S...

In this paper we argue for a human-in-the-loop approach to the study of situation awareness in computer defence analysis (CDA). The cognitive phenomenon of situation awareness (SA) has received significant attention in cybersecurity/CDA research. Yet little of this work has attended to the cognitive aspects of situation awareness in the CDA context; instead, the human operator has been treated ...