A System Theoretical Approach to Situation Awareness, A Holistic View of Purposeful Elements

Author

Lagervik, Charlie ; Norstedt-Larsson, Madeleine ; Gustavsson, Per M.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Humanities & Informatics, Univ. of Skovde

fYear

2006

fDate

10-13 July 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

This paper executes a comparison of the theories by Ackoff and Bedny & Meister for situation awareness (SA). The comparison gives a conceptual design for the common part of SA, a design that involves concepts like conscious and unconscious processes, gnostic activity, active and passive memory and dynamic processes. The design captures the ideas presented by Ackoff for adoption and learning, and is intended to work with social systems as described by Ackoff. The aim of the paper is to fill the need of conceptual general designs for SA systems. As result a definition of SA is presented, the result of the comparison of theories is presented, discussed and summarized in a conceptual design

Keywords

decision making; social sciences; conceptual design; situation awareness; social system; system theoretical approach; Data mining; Decision making; Filtration; Humans; Informatics; Information filtering; Information filters; Process design; Security; Warehousing; Automated Systems; Management; Situation Awareness; Situation Understanding; System Theory;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Fusion, 2006 9th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Florence

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0953-5

Electronic_ISBN

0-9721844-6-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIF.2006.301562

Filename

4085848