Mechanisms for the acquisition of situation awareness in situated agents

Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 625-647

  Chiappe, Dan L ^a   Strybel, Thomas Z ^a   Vu, Kim Phuong L ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

distributed cognition; human performance; metrics; sense making; situation awareness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867599094     PISSN: 1463922X     EISSN: 1464536X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1463922X.2011.611267     Document Type: Article

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