ABSTRACT
The term situation awareness was coined by pilots to articulate the degree of adaptation between a pilot and a work environment. High situation awareness indicated that the pilot was well adapted to the demands of the dynamic work environment-that the pilot had a full and accurate understanding of the task, that the pilot could see each element within the context of the overall mission, that each element fit into a coherent picture, and that the pilot was in synch with the demands of a dynamic task environment. Low situation awareness referred to an experience of being lost, an experience of a jumbled complex of elements with no apparent coherence, an experience of slipping behind and not being able to keep up with the demands of a rapidly changing task environment.
