Synthetic Task Design: Cognitive Task Analysis of AWACS Weapons Director Teams

摘要

In this report, we describe a cognitive task analysis (CTA) of Airborne Warning and Control Systems (AWACS) Weapons Director teams. We used three different CTA techniques to investigate how Weapons Directors typically perceive, decide, and act with respect to their environment. The results of the CTA were then distilled to provide both a description of the AWACS job and some preliminary specifications for designing the SynTEAM (Synthetic Team Effectiveness Assessment and Modeling) task. SynTEAM is a synthetic team- task environment based on the AWACS. SynTEAM will ultimately be used in laboratory studies aimed at investigating the characteristics of team behavior and cognition.