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Studies on contemporary submarine control room configurations revealed a bottleneck of information transition. The co-location of operators dependent on each other for task-relevant information relieved this, however, the impact of operator co-location on subjective Situation Awareness (SA) was not assessed. In the current work, half of the teams from the baseline study and half of the teams from the co-location configuration were evaluated on two SA questions: (1) “Rate the awareness of the total number of vessels surrounding the submarine” and (2) “How many vessels did the entire command team encounter during the scenario?”. Participants completed high and low demand Return to Periscope Depth scenarios and responded to the SA questions immediately after finishing each scenario. Results indicate that operator SA decreased in the high demand scenarios regardless of control room configuration type. Furthermore, operator SA was greater in the co-location configuration than in the baseline study (contemporary configuration).
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This work was funded by the Underwater Systems Programme of the UK Ministry of Defence Science and Technology Programme. Any views expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of the Ministry of Defence or any other UK government department. The authors would like to thank Joy Richardson from the University of Southampton for their help with the collection of data.
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Pope, K.A., Roberts, A.P.J., Fay, D., Stanton, N.A. (2020). Assessing Situation Awareness Across Different Submarine Control Room Layouts. In: Stanton, N. (eds) Advances in Human Aspects of Transportation. AHFE 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1212. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50943-9_60
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