Team cognition concepts are important in the collaborative information seeking (CIS) community. Yet, while this importance has been recognized there is a lack of research on team cognition within CIS. We take the position that team cognition concepts and measurements can be very useful to CIS researchers . This paper provides an understanding of what team mental models and common ground are. We...

Recent work has shown a convergence between the Human Factors and Formal Methods communities that opens promising new directions for collaborative work in calculating, predicting, and analyzing the behavior of complex aeronautical systems and their operators. Previously it has been shown that fully automatic, finitestate verification techniques can be used to identify likely sources of mode con...

This paper assesses a novel responsible conduct of research curriculum developed at the University of Oklahoma that focuses on metacognitive reasoning strategies that professionals use when making sense of professional issues that have ethical implications for science. To find out the overall effectiveness of the sensemaking approach, the authors also studied mental models of field experts, fac...

Research has shown that different kinds of experts within the same domain differ from each other in terms of how they organize and use knowledge. Expertise varies as a function of practice, culture, and goals. Previous research by HmeloSilver and Pfeffer (2004) has shown that two kinds of aquarium experts, hobbyists and scientists, have differing mental models of the system. This paper presents...

Human operators use mental models to guide their interaction with automated systems. We can “model the human” by constructing explicit descriptions of plausible mental models. Using mechanized formal methods, we can then calculate divergences between the actual system behavior and that suggested by the mental model. These divergences indicate possible automation surprises and other human factor...

This research aims at the development of a computational framework to support knowledge construction and sharing in Virtual Learning Communities. The distinctive characteristic of the framework is that the support will be tailored to the community as a whole, rather than adapting to particular individuals. A key component in the framework is a community knowledge model, which will be derived fr...

Poor aircraft energy management can lead to unsafe and inefficient operations. Despite their impact on safety and economy, energy management skills are not adequately taught or evaluated in civilian pilot training. This paper 1) addresses the need for better energy management training, 2) provides a conceptual and pedagogical framework for later curriculum development, and 3) suggests key attri...

Converging evidence from psychology, human factors, management and organizational science, and other related fields suggests that humans working in teams employ shared mental models to represent and use pertinent information about the task, the equipment, the team members and their roles. In particular, shared mental models are used to interact efficiently with other team members and to track p...

Inspection, maintenance, and repair (IMR) operations in the North Sea are performed from specialized vessels. The article contributes to the understanding of leadership as being too complex to be described as the strategies and behaviors of only one person. These leaders work in concert to be facilitating and contributing to flexibility and adaptation thus initiating collaboration between teams...

Shared mental models theory normally takes the individual as its unit of analysis. This paper proposes a theoretical framework for studying shared mental models in which the model is considered to be distributed amongst the team. From this framework a cognitive process is predicted which describes how shared mental models are run. A team reasoning task requiring planning was used to illustrate ...