Human Factors in Defence: Human Factors in Defence
About the Book Series
Human factors is key to enabling today’s armed forces to implement their vision to ’produce battle-winning people and equipment that are fit for the challenge of today, ready for the tasks of tomorrow and capable of building for the future’ (source: UK MoD). Modern armed forces fulfil a wider variety of roles than ever before. In addition to defending sovereign territory and prosecuting armed conflicts, military personnel are engaged in homeland defence and in undertaking peacekeeping operations and delivering humanitarian aid right across the world. This requires top class personnel, trained to the highest standards in the use of first class equipment. The military has long recognised that good human factors is essential if these aims are to be achieved. The defence sector is far and away the largest employer of human factors personnel across the globe and is the largest funder of basic and applied research. Much of this research is applicable to a wide audience, not just the military; this series aims to give readers access to some of this high quality work. Ashgate’s Human Factors in Defence series comprises of specially commissioned books from internationally recognised experts in the field. They provide in-depth, authoritative accounts of key human factors issues being addressed by the defence industry across the world.
Human Factors for Naval Marine Vehicle Design and Operation
1st Edition
By Jonathan M. Ross
February 28, 2019
There is a driving need for naval professionals to focus on human factors issues. The number of maritime accidents is increasing and the chief cause is human error, both by the designer and the operator. Decreasing crew size, lack of experienced operators, operations in higher sea states and ...
Team and Collective Training Needs Analysis: Defining Requirements and Specifying Training Systems
1st Edition
By John Huddlestone, Jonathan Pike
May 25, 2017
This book provides a methodology for analysing team tasks to identify the critical aspects of team performance that need to be trained and to determine appropriate training solutions to enable teams to operate efficiently, effectively and safely....
Fundamental Issues in Defense Training and Simulation
1st Edition
By George Galanis, Christopher Best, Robert Sottilare
March 31, 2017
Defense forces have always invested a great deal of their resources in training. In recent times, changes in the complexity and intensity of operations have reaffirmed the importance of ensuring that warfighters are adequately prepared for the environments in which they are required to work. The ...
Performance Under Stress
1st Edition
By James L. Szalma, Peter A. Hancock
March 31, 2017
The world is a dangerous place and recent events have served to make it less safe. There are many arenas of conflict and even combat across the world. Such situations are the quintessential expression of stress; you stand in imminent danger and live with the knowledge that you may be attacked, ...
Assessing Command and Control Effectiveness: Dealing with a Changing World
1st Edition
By Peter Berggren, Staffan Nählinder
March 29, 2017
Assessing Command and Control Effectiveness: Dealing with a Changing World offers a description of the current state of Command and Control (C2) research in imperfect settings, showing how a research process should assess, analyse and communicate results to the development cycle of methods, work, ...
Cognitive Work Analysis: Coping with Complexity
1st Edition
By Daniel P. Jenkins, Neville A. Stanton, Guy H. Walker
March 29, 2017
'Complex sociotechnical systems' are systems made up of numerous interacting parts, both human and non-human, operating in dynamic, ambiguous and safety critical domains. Cognitive Work Analysis (CWA) is a structured framework specifically developed for considering the development and analysis of ...
Command and Control: The Sociotechnical Perspective
1st Edition
By Guy H Walker, Neville A. Stanton, Daniel P. Jenkins
March 29, 2017
Military command and control is not merely evolving, it is co-evolving. Technology is creating new opportunities for different types of command and control, and new types of command and control are creating new aspirations for technology. The question is how to manage this process, how to achieve...
Designing Soldier Systems: Current Issues in Human Factors
1st Edition
By John Martin, Pamela Savage-Knepshield, Laurel Allender
March 29, 2017
This book focuses on contemporary human factors issues within the design of soldier systems and describes how they are currently being investigated and addressed by the U.S. Army to enhance soldier performance and effectiveness. Designing Soldier Systems approaches human factors issues from three ...
Digitising Command and Control: A Human Factors and Ergonomics Analysis of Mission Planning and Battlespace Management
1st Edition
By Neville A. Stanton, Daniel P. Jenkins, Paul M. Salmon, Guy H. Walker, Kirsten M. A. Revell, Laura A. Rafferty
March 29, 2017
This book presents a human factors and ergonomics evaluation of a digital Mission Planning and Battle-space Management (MP/BM) system. An emphasis was placed on the activities at the Brigade (Bde) and the Battle Group (BG) headquarters (HQ) levels. The analysts distributed their time evenly between...
Distributed Situation Awareness: Theory, Measurement and Application to Teamwork
1st Edition
By Paul M. Salmon, Neville A. Stanton, Daniel P. Jenkins
March 29, 2017
Having an accurate understanding of what is going on is a key commodity for teams working within military systems. 'Situation awareness' (SA) is the term that is used within human factors circles to describe the level of awareness that operators have of the situation that they are engaged in; it ...
Human Factors Issues in Combat Identification
1st Edition
Edited
By Dee H. Andrews, Robert P. Herz
March 29, 2017
This edited book presents an array of approaches on how human factors theory and research addresses the challenges associated with combat identification. Special emphasis is placed on reducing human error that leads to fratricide, which is the unintentional death or injury of friendly personnel by ...
Human-Robot Interactions in Future Military Operations
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Barnes, Florian Jentsch
March 29, 2017
Soldier-robot teams will be an important component of future battle spaces, creating a complex but potentially more survivable and effective combat force. The complexity of the battlefield of the future presents its own problems. The variety of robotic systems and the almost infinite number of ...