At a founding conference on situation awareness in the mid-1990s, safety veteran Charles Billings wondered aloud whether the use of “situation awareness” was necessary to explain what causes people to ...

Amy Irwin received funding from the ESRC for a PhD studentship (student: Oliver Hamlet) which will investigate non-technical skills in helicopter flight. Oliver Hamlet receives funding from the ESRC ...

Every crew that arrives on the scene of an incident needs to conduct a size-up. It's an essential component to ensuring strategic and tactical success as well as improving firefighter safety. The ...

Situation awareness (SA) remains a cornerstone in understanding how individuals and teams interact with complex technological systems in a range of high-stakes environments. It encompasses the ...

Traffic can be very unpredictable. As a result, road users can find suddenly find themselves in dangerous situations. With self-driving cars, it is vital that they are aware of the nature of the ...

Editor’s note: This is the 22 nd article in the “Real Words or Buzzwords?” series from SecurityInfoWatch.com contributor Ray Bernard about how real words can become empty words and stifle technology ...