Liberally illustrated with actual design examples, this book demonstrates how people acquire and interpret information and examines the factors that undermine this process. The first edition successfully filled a significant gap in the market, presenting a core set of principles and a methodology for engineers and designers who are seeking to nourish the situation awareness of their systems' users. The second edition significantly expands and updates the examples throughout to include a wider range of domains and increases the coverage of SA design principles and guidelines to include new areas of current development. It translates current research into a usable, applicable method and guidelines.

Understanding Situation Awareness in System Design. User-Centered Design. What is Situation Awareness. SA Demons: The Enemies of Situation Awareness. The Design Process. Creating Situation Awareness-Oriented Designs. Determining SA Requirements. Principles of Designing for SA. Confidence and Uncertainty in SA and Decision Making. Dealing with Complexity. Alarms, Diagnosis, and SA. Automation and Situation Awareness. Designing to Support SA for Multiple and Distributed Operators. Multi-modal and 3-D displays. Supporting SA in Remote Control Operations. Completing the Design Cycle. Evaluating Design Concepts for SA. Applying SA-Oriented Design to Complex Systems. Appendix A: Goal-directed Task Analysis for Commercial Airline Pilots.