Macrocognition Metrics and Scenarios: Design and Evaluation for Real-World Teams

By Janet E. Miller and Emily S. Patterson

Macrocognition Metrics and Scenarios: Design and Evaluation for Real-World Teams translates advances by scientific leaders in the relatively new area of macrocognition into a format that will support immediate use by members of the software testing and evaluation community for large-scale systems as well as trainers of real-world teams. Macrocognition is defined as how activity in real-world teams is adapted to the complex demands of a setting with high consequences for failure. The primary distinction between macrocognition and prior research is that the primary unit for measurement is a real-world team coordinating their activity, rather than individuals processing information, the predominant model for cognition for decades. This book provides an overview of the theoretical foundations of macrocognition, describes a set of exciting new macrocognitive metrics, and provides guidance on using the metrics in the context of different approaches to evaluation and measurement of real-world teams.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0754675785
• ISBN13: 9780754675785
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"