ABSTRACT

The main goal of this study was to develop a course for crew members that would facilitate crew interaction and shared mental models (SMM) among the crew members, with the ultimate goal of enhancing team performance. Recent studies on crew resource management training of cockpit crew members have concluded that such training is beneficial (Salas, Fowlkes, Stout, Milanovich,& Prince, 1999; Salas, Prince, et al., 1999), and there is no reason to suppose that it would not be beneficial also in the naval context we studied.