Situation awareness: review of Mica Endsley's 1995 articles on situation awareness theory and measurement.
OBJECTIVE
This article summarizes two articles by Endsley on situation awareness (SA) and presents the influence of the concept on subsequent practice and theory of human factors.


BACKGROUND
In her articles, Endsley integrated and consolidated existing research done in the prior decade.


METHODS
I carefully examined and integrated subsequent articles on the SA topic written by Endsley and by others.


RESULTS
This integration revealed that SA has been applied to areas of training, error analysis, design, selection, teamwork, and automation. Some key issues related to automation and SA are reviewed in detail.


CONCLUSIONS
Situation awareness is a viable and important construct that still possesses some controversy over measurement issues.


CONCLUSIONS
Ways in which human factors practitioners have used the SA construct and numerous citations are provided to assist designers.
Wickens
Christopher D
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University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois, USA. cwickens@alionscience.com
D001364:Awareness; D006804:Ergonomics / Q000266:history; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical