Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2011
City
Dayton
Abstract
Operator vigilance is a vital concern to the Air Force in regard to cockpit monitoring, air-traffic control, and the supervisory control of unmanned aerial vehicles. A key interest is the performance of teams of observers because of the reliance of military operations on good teamwork. Previous literature has examined the efficacy of team vigilance performance by comparing the frequency of target detections by teams in comparison to those obtained by operators working alone. Team performance has consistently exceeded single-operator performance. The present study replicates this effect and provides the initial experimental investigation of the cost of being a team member. Results indicated that team members worked harder but reported less distress than single operators in the performance of a simulated UAV monitoring task.
Repository Citation
Garcia, A.,
Baldwin, C.,
Funke, M.,
Funke, G.,
Finomore, V.,
Knott, B. A.,
& Warm, J. S.
(2011). Team Vigilance: The Effects of Co-Action on Workload and Stress. 16th International Symposium on Aviation Psychology, 304-308.
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