Designing for Situation Awareness

Exploring the methods for creating the truly user-centered system designs needed in today's complex world, this book provides design guidance for creating systems that will keep operator situation awareness (SA) high and support real-time decision making and performance requirements. It gives you an in-depth understanding of how people acquire and interpret information in complex settings and recognize the factors that undermine this process. The authors argue that principles of SA are the key to user-centered design in aeronautics and other complex control systems. They describe theories of human decision-making and treat information processing with as much importance as actual design examples.