A Systems Perspective on Situation Awareness I: Conceptual Framework, Modeling, and Quantitative Measurement

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Kirlik ◽  
Richard Strauss
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Situation Awareness ◽  
Quantitative Measurement ◽  
Systems Perspective

scholarly journals Integrated Simulation Environment for Unmanned Autonomous Systems—Towards a Conceptual Framework

2010 ◽  
Vol 2010 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. G. Perhinschi ◽  
M. R. Napolitano ◽  
S. Tamayo
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Autonomous Systems ◽  
Simulation Environment ◽  
Integrated Simulation ◽  
Systems Perspective ◽  
Future Developments ◽  
Current State ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Testing And Evaluation

The paper initiates a comprehensive conceptual framework for an integrated simulation environment for unmanned autonomous systems (UAS) that is capable of supporting the design, analysis, testing, and evaluation from a “system of systems” perspective. The paper also investigates the current state of the art of modeling and performance assessment of UAS and their components and identifies directions for future developments. All the components of a comprehensive simulation environment focused on the testing and evaluation of UAS are identified and defined through detailed analysis of current and future required capabilities and performance. The generality and completeness of the simulation environment is ensured by including all operational domains, types of agents, external systems, missions, and interactions between components. The conceptual framework for the simulation environment is formulated with flexibility, modularity, generality, and portability as key objectives. The development of the conceptual framework for the UAS simulation reveals important aspects related to the mechanisms and interactions that determine specific UAS characteristics including complexity, adaptability, synergy, and high impact of artificial and human intelligence on system performance and effectiveness.

Telecommuter Selection

2001 ◽  
pp. 118-129
Author(s):  
Janet A. Henquinet
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Selection Procedures ◽  
Systems Perspective

This chapter presents a conceptual framework for the telecommuter selection process. The framework uses a systems perspective to identify critical variables and relationships in selecting effective telecommuters. The purpose of the model is twofold: to assist managers and organizations in developing selection procedures and to identify opportunities for future research

scholarly journals Adaptive Resilience of Complex Safety-Critical Sociotechnical Systems: Toward a Unified Conceptual Framework and Its Formalization

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (24) ◽  
pp. 13915
Author(s):  
Matthieu Vert ◽  
Alexei Sharpanskykh ◽  
Richard Curran
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Adaptive Capacity ◽  
Situation Awareness ◽  
Sociotechnical Systems ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Formal Representation ◽  
Safety Critical ◽  
Adaptive Resilience

Resilience is commonly understood as the capacity for a system to maintain a desirable state while undergoing adversity or to return to a desirable state as quickly as possible after being impacted. In this paper, we focus on resilience for complex sociotechnical systems (STS), specifically those where safety is an important aspect. Two main desiderata for safety-critical STS to be resilient are adaptive capacity and adaptation. Formal studies integrating human cognition and social aspects are needed to quantify the capacity to adapt and the effects of adaptation. We propose a conceptual framework to elaborate on the concept of resilience of safety-critical STS, based on adaptive capacity and adaptation and how this can be formalized. A set of mechanisms is identified that is necessary for STS to have the capacity to adapt. Mechanisms belonging to adaptive capacity include situation awareness, sensemaking, monitoring, decision-making, coordination, and learning. It is posited that the two mechanisms required to perform adaptation are anticipation and responding. This framework attempts to coherently integrate the key components of the multifaceted concept of STS Equationsadaptive resilience. This can then be used to pursue the formal representation of Equationsadaptive resilience, its modeling, and its operationalization in real-world safety-critical STS.

Conceptual Framework to Enrich Situation Awareness of Emergency Dispatchers

2015 ◽  
pp. 33-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Souza ◽  
Leonardo Castro Botega ◽  
José Eduardo Santarém Segundo ◽  
Claudia Beatriz Berti ◽  
Márcio Roberto de Campos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Situation Awareness ◽  
Emergency Dispatchers

scholarly journals Systemic capabilities: the source of IT business value

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 556-579 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guangming Cao ◽  
Yanqing Duan ◽  
Trevor Cadden ◽  
Sonal Minocha
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Business Value ◽  
Content Type ◽  
It Business Value ◽  
Systems Perspective ◽  
Resource Complementarity ◽  
Organisational Factors ◽  
Value Of It

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop, and explicate the significance of the need for a systemic conceptual framework for understanding IT business value. Design/methodology/approach – Embracing a systems perspective, this paper examines the interrelationship between IT and other organisational factors at the organisational level and its impact on the business value of IT. As a result, a systemic conceptual framework for understanding IT business value is developed. An example of enhancing IT business value through developing systemic capabilities is then used to test and demonstrate the value of this framework. Findings – The findings suggest that IT business value would be significantly enhanced when systemic capabilities are generated from the synergistic interrelations among IT and other organisational factors at the systems level, while the system’s human agents play a critical role in developing systemic capabilities by purposely configuring and reconfiguring organisational factors. Practical implications – The conceptual framework advanced provides the means to recognise the significance of the need for understanding IT business value systemically and dynamically. It encourages an organisation to focus on developing systemic capabilities by ensuring that IT and other organisational factors work together as a synergistic whole, better managing the role its human agents play in shaping the systems interrelations, and developing and redeveloping systemic capabilities by configuring its subsystems purposely with the changing business environment. Originality/value – This paper reveals the nature of systemic capabilities underpinned by a systems perspective. The resultant systemic conceptual framework for understanding IT business value can help us move away from pairwise resource complementarity to focusing on the whole system and its interrelations while responding to the changing business environment. It is hoped that the framework can help organisations delineate important IT investment considerations and the priorities that they must adopt to create superior IT business value.

Can Teamwork Promote Safety in Organizations?

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 283-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo Salas ◽  
Tiffany M. Bisbey ◽  
Allison M. Traylor ◽  
Michael A. Rosen
Keyword(s):  
Collective Efficacy ◽  
Situation Awareness ◽  
Dynamic Process ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Driving Safety ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Systems Perspective ◽  
Unsafe Behavior ◽  
Support Team

In this review, we conceptualize teamwork as the linchpin driving safety performance throughout an organization. Safety is promoted by teams through various mechanisms that interact in a complex and dynamic process. We press pause on this dynamic process to organize a discussion highlighting the critical role played by teamwork factors in the engagement of safe and unsafe behavior, identifying five team-level emergent states that enable effective teamwork and safety: psychological safety, team trust, collective efficacy, shared mental models, and situation awareness. Additionally, we consider foundational conditions that support team-driven safety, the development of safety culture, and the importance of team safety climate in shaping performance. We discuss leveraging teams to generate safety and identify directions for future research investigating the relationship between teamwork and safety. Overall, we submit that researchers and practitioners would benefit from taking a systems perspective of safety by integrating principles of team science to better understand and promote safety in organizations.

scholarly journals A Tool Perspective on Design of Interactive Computer Support for Skilled Workers

1986 ◽  
Vol 14 (190) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pelle Ehn ◽  
Morten Kyng
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Information Flow ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Computer Support ◽  
Skilled Workers ◽  
Systems Perspective ◽  
Labour Process ◽  
Production Development

<p>This paper presents a conceptual framework, useful when designing computer support for skilled workers. We call this framework a <em>tool perspective</em>. It has emerged as a result of a growing dissatisfaction with the <em>systems perspective</em>, which tends to give an outwardly understanding, making men, machines and materials look alike and reducing work to algorithmic procedures, some of them candidates for inclusion into the edp programs.</p><p>The tool perspective takes the <em>labour process</em> as its origin rather than data or information flow, emphasising the development of tools to be used with skill by workers in control of the production. Development of professional education is in focus, rather than detailed analysis and description of the work.</p>

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