Scaling scenarios for synthetic task environments: Issues related to fidelity and validity

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 377-381

  Elliott, Linda R ^a   Dalrymple, Mathieu ^a   Wesley Regian, J ^b   Schiflett, Samuel G ^b  

^a Veridian Engineering   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED MISSION TRAINING (DMT); PSYCHOLOGICAL FIDELITY; SYNTHETIC TASK ENVIRONMENTS (SEM);

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MILITARY APPLICATIONS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; PERSONNEL TRAINING; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 0442310967     PISSN: 10711813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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