ABSTRACT
Macrocognition in team collaboration is a relatively new area of human cognition. A critical component to conducting empirical research in macrocognition is the use of sensitive measures of the various macrocognitve processes. The core of the Collaboration and Knowledge Interoperability Program (CKI) is focused on basic research, in the terms of the Office of Naval Research, 'Discovery and Invention'. The objective of the CKI program is to respond to emerging needs in both the military and business environments to better understand and improve the effectiveness of team decision-making in complex, data-rich situations. Individual knowledge development is the process of individual team member conversion of data into knowledge about the situation at hand. The process includes collecting, fusing, filtering, representing and displaying knowledge produced in a format that can be shared. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
