Using a framework for co-ordinated decision-making in emergency management to assess multi-user simulators

Conference · Sat Dec 30 23:00:00 EST 1995

OSTI ID:282320

Colbert, M ^[1]; Miberg, A B ^[2]

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1. University College London (United Kingdom)
2. Risoe National Lab., Roskilde (Denmark)

To assess multi-user training and evaluation simulators, a framework for characterizing co-ordination between emergency management (EM) decision-makers is required. The framework presented here concerns decision-making undertaken by individuals within a workgroup. Coordinated decision-making requires each decision-maker to consider, and intervene in, the emergency domain and the EM workgroup in parallel. Each stream of consideration comprises mental representations with shorter- and longer-term horizons. Decision-making within a given horizon comprises a cycle of perception, assessment, decision and action. Use of the framework to assess multi-user EM simulators is illustrated.

• OSTI ID: 282320
• Report Number(s): CONF-9505224--; ISBN 1-56555-079-X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
ACCIDENTS
COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
DECISION MAKING
EMERGENCY PLANS
SAFETY
SIMULATORS
TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT