Principles For Aiding Complex Military Decision Making

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Hutchins, Susan G.
Morrison, Jeffrey G.
Kelly, Richard T.
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The Tactical Decision Making Under Stress
(TADMUS) program is being conducted to
apply recent developments in decision theory
and human-system interaction technology
to the design of a decision support system
for enhancing tactical decision making
under the highly complex conditions involved
in anti-air warfare scenarios in littoral
environments. Our goal is to present decision
support information in a format that
minimizes any mismatches between the
cognitive characteristics of the human decision maker and the design and response
characteristics of the decision support system. Decision makers are presented with
decision support tools which parallel the
cognitive strategies they already employ,
thus reducing the number of decision making
errors. Hence, prototype display development has been based on decision making
models postulated by naturalistic
decision-making theory. Incorporating current
human-system interaction design
principles is expected to reduce cognitive
processing demands and thereby mitigate
decision errors caused by cognitive overload,
which have been documented through
research and experimentation. Topics include a discussion of: (1) the theoretical
background for the TADMUS program; (2)
a description of the cognitive tasks performed;
(3) the decision support and human-
system interaction design principles
incorporated to reduce the cognitive processing
load on the decision maker; and (4) a
brief description of the types of errors
made by decision makers and interpretations
of the cause of these errors based on
the cognitive psychology literature.
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Paper presented to the Second International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium, Monterey, Ca.
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