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Situation Assessment and Decision-Making

22/23 May 2001
A Conference Presented by the Human Factors Group of the Royal Aeronautical Society together with the UK Ergonomics Society

Papers and Materials on Situation Assessment

1. Presentations
Papers are posted as links to the programme titles below. In some cases, an audio stream may be provided where comprehensive notes are not available. Workshop reports are also posted where available. All papers reflect the views of their authors alone. We recommend that readers save PPTs to file by right-clicking since most are more than 3MB in size.

Contents 1. Presentations
Presentations are posted when cleared by speakers. Notes:
 (1) We recommend saving these files to disk rather than opening them online - some are quite large.
(2) All reproduction rights are reserved by the author(s). Information and papers presented here are not intended for sale or redistribution without written consent from their authors.
(3) Many of the presentations and papers provided below require Adobe Acrobat, a standard document viewing application.  This is available free:
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Prof. Jim Reason: "Decision Making in the Real World (An Aviator's Guide)" (PDF, requires Adobe Acrobat Viewer).
Dr. Tom Seamster: "Training for Expert Performance: Tools and Strategies" (PDF, requires Adobe Acrobat Viewer).
Dr. Mica Endsley: "Training for Situation Awareness" (PDF, requires Adobe Acrobat Viewer).
Prof. Malcolm Cook: "What Are Our Training Goals? Why Are We Training Them?" (PDF, requires Adobe Acrobat Viewer).
Prof. Rene Amalberti: "Training Situation Awareness and Decision-Making: A Rule-Making Approach" (PPT, requires MS Powerpoint or PPT Viewer).
Prof. Eduardo Salas: "Training Crews for High Performance: Myths, Reality and What Works" (PDF, requires Adobe Acrobat or Viewer).

2. Related SA and Decision-Making Papers, Links and Notes
For background material for this conference, consult the Proceedings of the Situation Awareness conference.
Seamster, Hamman and Edens, "Specification of Observable Behaviours within LOFT/lOE Events", PDF, requires Adobe Acrobat
Dr. Tom Seamster, "Pilot Awareness and Decision Making: The Structure of Cognitive Skills" (DOC, requires Microsoft Word).
Seamster, Redding and Kempf, eds. (1997) chapter 6 in Applied Cognitive Task Analysis in Aviation, Ashgate Publishing Ltd., PDF, requires Adobe Acrobat.
Seamster, Prentiss and Edens, "Implementing CRM Skills within Crew Training Programs", PDF, requires Adobe Acrobat.
Seamster, Boehm-Davis, Holt and Schultz, "Developing Advanced Crew Resource Management (ACRM) Training: A Training Manual", (1998) FAA; Zipped PDF, requires an UNZIP utility (Winzip, PKUnzip, Stuffit Expander) and Adobe Acrobat Viewer.
ESSAI: Enhanced Safety through Situation Awareness Integration in training
NOTECHS: Non-Technical Skills Assessment in Pilot Training: Theory and Practice of the NOTECHS method - 1/2 day seminar at EAAP 2000 conference.

For additional links, check the JAA page, CRM site and Links page.

3. British Airways Seminar
Prof. Jim Reason, "The Dimensions of Organizational Resiliance to Operational Hazards" (PDF, requires Adobe Acrobat Viewer).
Dr. Tom Seamster, "Crew Resource Management and Human Factors in the Organization" (PDF, requires Adobe Acrobat Viewer).
Prof. Malcolm Cook, "What Are Our Training Goals? Why Are We Training Them (II)" (PDF, requires Adobe Acrobat Viewer).
Prof. Eduardo Salas, "What Do We Know About Teamwork and Team Training? Helping Promote Safety in High Risk Environments" (PDF, requires Adobe Acrobat or Viewer).
4. Conference Information
Conference Brochure: Conference Programme (PDF)
Conference Programme (DOC)
Conference Delegates (DOC)