Situational Awareness

Human-System Interaction (HSI) is the study of interfaces between humans and technical systems. The Department of Defense incorporates HSI evaluations into defense acquisition to improve system performance and reduce lifecycle costs. During operational test and evaluation, HSI evaluations characterize how a system’s operational performance is affected by its users. The goal of this course is to provide the theoretical background and practical tools necessary to plan and evaluate HSI test plans, collect and analyze HSI data, and report on HSI results....

Situation Awareness (SA) plays a key role in decision making and human performance, higher operator SA is associated with increased operator performance and decreased operator errors. While maintaining or improving “situational awareness” is a common requirement for systems under test, there is no single standardized method or metric for quantifying SA in operational testing (OT). This leads to varied and sometimes suboptimal treatments of SA measurement across programs and test events....