Play on or call a foul: testing and extending distributed situation awareness theory through sports officiating

Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 80-103

  Neville, Timothy J ^a,b   Salmon, Paul M ^a   Read, Gemma J M ^a   Kalloniatis, Alexander C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST   (Australia)

^b DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australian rules football; coupling; distributed cognition; Distributed situation awareness; referee; sports; Umpire

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948148140     PISSN: 1463922X     EISSN: 1464536X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1463922X.2015.1106617     Document Type: Article

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