OBJECTIVE This article summarizes two articles by Endsley on situation awareness (SA) and presents the influence of the concept on subsequent practice and theory of human factors. BACKGROUND In her articles, Endsley integrated and consolidated existing research done in the prior decade. METHOD I carefully examined and integrated subsequent articles on the SA topic written by Endsley and by ...

This paper presents the concept of unmanned vehicle situation awareness and provides a discussion of how an unmanned vehicle situation awareness architecture can be developed based upon human situation awareness. A broadly adapted human situation awareness definition is directly applied to the notion of unmanned vehicle situation awareness. The paper also discusses unique unmanned vehicle aspec...

Teamwork is important in the operating room. Team members rely on each other’s expertise for successful task completion. Because of lunch and change of shift breaks, handoffs occur frequently, but little is known about their effect on team performance, or the team’s awareness of these changes. We performed a 360 degree evaluation of the effect of operating room handoffs on teamwork, stress, and...

Current research in the field of robotics deals with planning and executing of increasingly complex tasks as well as applications in which autonomous mobile robot systems interact with highly dynamic environments. In order to operate successfully in a highly dynamic physical world a mobile robot needs awareness to adapt its behavior according to the environment. This awareness also has to cope ...