Characterizing team performance in network-centric operations: Philosophical and methodological issues

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 78, Issue 5 II, 2007, Pages

  Bolia, Robert S ^a   Nelson, W Todd ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Network centric; Situation awareness; Workload

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; ERROR; METHODOLOGY; PERFORMANCE; PHILOSOPHY; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; TEAMWORK; WAR; WORKLOAD;

AWARENESS; COGNITION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS; MILITARY MEDICINE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WAR; WORKLOAD;

EID: 34248223224     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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