Team situation awareness as a basis of team intention inference: definition and framework

Situation awareness (SA) is a key concept that is widely used to assess performance of human-artifact interaction. In this presentation, we discuss definition of team situation awareness (TSA) to apply the notion of SA to cooperative team works and the underlying mechanism of TSA. Then we propose a new notion of TSA, which is reducible to mutual beliefs as well as individual SA in a multilayered structure. It defines the conditions, which need to be satisfied before team intention can be initiated. Finally, we develop the methodological framework of inferring TSA.