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Changes in task requirements and resulting system capabilities have led to the addition of crewmembers, information displays, and monitoring and coordination requirements in many domains. The overarching objective of this experimental study was to test whether providing task relevant information to individual team members in a time critical environment, while limiting their access to non-task relevant information, would change team interactions by improving team shared situational awareness and consequently, improve performance. The results of this experiment support this hypothesis and provide a new understanding of how the distribution of information among team members affects the development of shared expectations and information requirements, team and individual performance, and communications that has not been empirically documented elsewhere.

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Information Distribution and Team Situational Awareness: An Experimental Study

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