Abstract: This thesis combines the theoretical frameworks of internal human cognition with the framework of distributed cognition for the civil cockpit, to create a combined situation awareness theory of distributed situation awareness. The theory is operationalised by being related to measurement methods. An experiment was conducted to test the theory and the distribution of attention in the cockpit as well as the adequacy of the situation awareness system in an altitude bust anomaly. The theory was found to be adequate for the operationalisation of the situation awareness system of the experiment. Distributed attention was found to exist for the landing phase of one flight, and the situation awareness system was found to be adequate for safe handling of the altitude bust event, but inadequate for the safe handling of the map shift event.
Lundberg, J. (1999). Distributed Situation Awareness for the Civil Cockpit: Theory and operationalisation. Masters Thesis. Linköping, Sweden: Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköpings universitet. LIU-KOGVET-D-0013-SE. [pdf]