Decision Making in Complex Environments

Across civil and military settings, many intricate systems rely heavily on automation to help people handle demanding thinking tasks. Those working in them, whether alone or in groups, often carry out live supervision, command, or information management while juggling several limits at once. This volume looks at how people, machines, and workflows fit together inside such interconnected systems.

The editors take a multidisciplinary view of human factors in complex decision making. The collection gathers more than thirty contributions covering military human factors, group decision making, situation awareness, and the technology that supports these tasks. Military work is the largest focus, but the chapters also reach into business, medicine, government, and aviation.

The contributors draw on psychology, human factors research, industry practice, commercial work, military experience, computer science, organizational psychology, and training. The result is a broad set of perspectives aimed at researchers and practitioners alike.