Cockpit Task Management Bibliography

Adams, M.J., Tenny, Y.J., & Pew, R.W. (1991)

TITLE:	State-of-the-Art Report: Strategic workload and the cognitive management of advanced multi-task systems.
PUBLISHER:	SOAR CSERIAC 91-6. Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH: Crew System Ergonomics Information Analysis Center.
KEYWORDS:	Mulitple Task Management, Situation Awareness, Schema

SUMMARY:	"We introduce a theoretical framework for understanding human cognitive processing that builds on active theories of perception, connectionist theories of associative knowledge structures, and schema theories of comprehension. The framework addresses mechanisms of attention, situation awareness, and real-time management of mulitple streams of activity."

SIGNIFICANT CONCEPTS/EXCERPTS:

Definition for Multiple Task Management "... people's ability to manage temporally interleaved, partially overlapping cognitive tasks."

Definition of Situation Awareness

"... the up-to-the-minute cognizance required to operate and maintain a system" (page 13)

"... entails not only recognition of the urgency and importance of each pending activity in itself but also in subordination of the higher order goals and integrity of the overall system or mission." (page 13)

In literature at large, the term situation awareness is alternatively used to define the ideal and the actual ... we have made a rule of using the term situation awareness only with reference to the actual" (page 13)

"Prioritization and anticipation both depend on the operator's situation awareness..." (page 13)

Operational definition of the content of awareness as developed by Yates, 1985. "... those aspects of the world which a person can volutarily report or respond to." (page 20)

Cites Neisser's (1976) suggestion that: "people have trouble managing multiple tasks only because, for lack of experience and necessity, they have not learned to do so." (page 23)

Why study multiple task management? (page 11)

Inclination to resume interrupted tasks (pages 48-49)
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