Automation Information Sharing and Shared Situation Awareness

摘要

Increasingly, the trend for military and other organisations is an increase in automation to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of staff in the workplace. In the military context, automated tools assisting in battlefield visualisation and mission planning may be implemented for these very purposes. Automation may, however, impact on the performance of military teams and affect the situation awareness (SA) necessary for good team functioning. This review examines the potential impacts and benefits of automation on information sharing, SA, planning, and team performance, as well as the concept of measuring SA. Several potential methods for measuring both shared and individual SA in various military contexts (ie. during field exercises, Command Post Exercises and in laboratory-based experiments) are then briefly outlined. It concludes with a brief discussion of the need for further examination of the impact of automation, the need for training of staff, and the reality of the benefits imparted by the tools themselves.