Developing shared situational awareness for emergency management.

Qualitative, questionnaire concerning information needs

To determine what is critical information for the CCRRS we divided the approach into critical information, i.e. the minimum SSA needs of the CCRRS, and action-triggering information, i.e. the minimum SA needs of an organization or actor.

The data collection was performed during a search and rescue exercise held in Finland in 2009 and included both observation and questionnaires

The purpose of our research was to identify the factors that affect the formation of shared situation awareness in search and rescue operations

The response rate was only 25% and the responses were not as specific as we expectedThe definition of the critical information elements was especially challenging for the human agents

The information requirements of actors can be identified by specifying the critical information needs. This supports the formation of SA and clarifies the information sharing processes. The critical information can later be used in the development of the COP of the CCRRS.Results can be used in the systematic development of SSA in SAR operations. Based on the results of this study we suggest that these methods have the potential for the further testing and development.

The exercise was based on a

Copione prepianificato che guida un’esercitazione, nonché gli stimoli utilizzati per raggiungere gli obiettivi di performance progettati dall’esercitazione.

DRIVER+ nota 1: Nel contesto di DRIVER+, gli scenari sono definiti per i Trial, non per le esercitazioni.

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where a passenger airplane crashlanded in the sea close to the shoreline.The exercise is planned and carried out annually by the same group of organizations but with a changing scenario.