EAST (Event Analysis for Systemic Teamwork) is an integrated methods approach that can be used to describe systems level ‘emergent properties’ that arise from complex socio-technical systems. This paper reports on the application of the method to a military command and control scenario. The focus is on the technical and structural determinates of the emergent property of Systemic Situation Awareness (SSA) in cases where Networked Enabled Capability (NEC) is largely absent (e.g. the military domain) compared to examples in which it is present (e.g. the civilian domain).
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