Field Study to Evaluate Models of Team Decision-Making

Abstract

Teams are often critical components of complex systems. Moreover, design of intelligent team training and aids depends on robust computational team models. To date, however, research has focused on computational models of individual decision-makers. No general computational team models exist. Models that do exist are typically quite primitive and restricted in domain of application. (Pew & Mayor, 1998) Thus, flexible, scalable, computational models of team decision making are urgently needed. In this paper, we describe a field study and proposed modeling extensions to the OFM/OFMspert methodology to represent team decision making. Specifically, this paper describes an initial extension of an OFM/OFMspert model for air traffic management (ATM), modeling the interaction between airline dispatchers and pilots-in-command of individual aircraft.