Books in the Human Factors in Defence series

The world is a dangerous place. Many events have served to render it less safe and there are many arenas of conflict and even combat across the world. Such situations are the quintessential expression of stress. This book is derived from a multiple university (MURI) project on stress and soldier performance on modern, electronic battlefield.

Fratricide has been defined as firing on your own forces, when mistaking them for enemy forces, which results in injury or death. This book presents and validates, via the use of case studies, a model of teamwork and decision-making factors that are associated with incidents of fratricide.

The variety of robotic systems and the almost infinite number of possible military missions create a dilemma for researchers who wish to predict human-robot interactions (HRI) performance in future environments. This book illuminates the challenges and potential solutions for military HRI. It deals with various military issues.

Written under the auspices of the The Transfer Cooperation Programme, this book reports on contemporary trends in the defence research community on trust in teams, including inter- and intra-team trust, multiagency trust and coalition trust. It also considers trust in information and automation, taking a systems view of humans as agents in a multi-agent, socio-technical, community. The different types of trust are usually found to share many of the same emotive, behavioural, cognitive and social constructs, but differ in the degree of importance associated with each of them.

Assessing Command and Control Effectiveness: Dealing with a Changing World offers a description of the current state of Command and Control (C2) research in imperfect settings, showing how a research process should assess, analyse and communicate results to the development cycle of methods, work, manning and C2-technology.

This book provides a detailed overview of the human factors and performance limitations associated with flying fast jets, integrating all the latest available research literature on the demanding operational tasks faced by such pilots and aircrews. As such, it has a strong military focus, dealing with pilots of fighter aircraft.

This book provides the optimum starting point for readers to come to terms with the important issues associated with defence training and simulation. It provides brief, easy-to-understand summaries of the key issues, as well as guidance for further reading. It consists of a collection of short essays and frequently asked questions.

Presents an array of approaches on how human factors theory and research addresses the challenges associated with combat identification. This book is intended for the larger human factors community within academia, the military and other organizations that work with the military such as government contractors and commercial developers.

Military problems are becoming more complex, requiring teams to address problems rather than relying solely on individuals. This book provides readers with an understanding of the macrocognitive processes which support collaborative team activity, showcasing research, theories, methodologies and tools.

Reports on contemporary trends in the defence research community on trust in teams, including inter- and intra-team trust, multiagency trust and coalition trust. This book considers trust in information and automation, taking a systems view of humans as agents in a multi-agent, socio-technical, community.

Since its inception, just after the Second World War, human factors research has paid special attention to the issues surrounding human control of systems. Using extensive case study material, this book demonstrates how the social and technical domains interact, and why each require equal treatment and importance in the future.

Military command and control is not merely evolving, it is co-evolving. The question is how to manage this process, how to achieve a jointly optimised blend of socio and technical and create the kind of agility and self-synchronization that modern forms of command and control promise. This book proposes a re-visit sociotechnical systems theory.

Focuses on the military model as an exemplar for high-stress environments, the best for understanding human performance under stress, both in the short-term as well as in the long-term.

Presents a human factors and ergonomics evaluation of a digital Mission Planning and Battle-space Management (MP/BM) system. This book emphasises on the activities at the Brigade (Bde) and the Battle Group (BG) headquarters (HQ) levels. It concludes with a summary of the research project's findings and offers many insights.

Focuses on the concept of distributed situation awareness, which takes a systems perspective on the concept and moves the focus on situation awareness out of the heads of individual operators and on to the overall joint cognitive system consisting of human and technological agents.

Cognitive Work Analysis (CWA) is a structured framework specifically developed for considering the development and analysis of complex socio-technical systems. This book contains a comprehensive description of CWA, introducing it to the uninitiated and presents a number of applications in complex military domains to explore the benefits of CWA.

Designers understand the marine vehicle; human factors professionals understand how a particular environment affects people. Yet neither has a practical understanding of the other's field. This book intends to bridge the communications gap, and helps enhance the design and operation of naval marine vehicles.