Scaled Worlds: Development, Validation and Applications

Contents: Reflections on scenario-based training in tactical command, Karel van den Bosch and Johan B.J. Riemersma; Some reflections on Microworld research, Berndt Brehmer; Monitoring distributed collaboration in the CA (3)Fire Microworld, Rego Granlund and BjA?rn Johansson; Using scaled worlds to track changes in mental models during the acquisition of skill on a complex decision-making task, Raanan Lipshitz and Sharon Marmor-Pilowsky; Engineered experiences for scaled worlds: an example from aviation, Clint Bowers and Florian Jentsch; A psychological fidelity approach to simulation-based training: theory, research and principles, Steve W.J. Kozlowski and Richard P. DeShon; Development of a distributed training and research network, Christopher Barnes, Linda R. Elliott, Samuel G. Schiflett, Alexander Stoyen and Plamen V. Petrov; Scaling scenarios: development and application to C4ISR sustained operations research, Linda R. Elliott, Mathieu A. Dalrymple, Samuel G. Schiflett and James C. Miller; Utilization of rough sets theory to assess physical and psychological fidelity within scaled worlds, Michael D. Coovert and Dawn L. Riddle; Measuring performance in a scaled world: lessons learned from the distributed dynamic decision-making (DDD) synthetic team task, Jean MacMillan, Eileen B. Entin, Kathleen P. Hess and Michael J. Paley; Diagnosticity of mental models in cognitive and metacognitive processes: implications for synthetic task environment training, Sandro Scielzo, Stephen M. Fiore, Haydee M. Cuevas and Eduardo Salas; The changing shape of large-scale programs of research: MSU-DDD as an illustrative example, Stephen E. Humphrey, John R. Hollenbeck, Daniel R. Ilgen and Henry Moon; Memory for attributes of information presented in a synthetic task environment: an illustration with AWACS weapons directors' displays, Verlin B. Hinsz and Christine P. Malone; Using cognitive task analysis to design multiple synthetic tasks for uninhabited aerial vehicle operation, Leo Gugerty; Designing a synthetic task environment, Nancy J. Cooke and Steven M. Shope; Using scaled worlds to study multi-team systems, Michelle A. Marks, John E. Mathieu and Stephen J. Zaccaro; Multi-team ACES: a research platform for studying multi-team systems, John E. Mathieu, Marshell G. Cobb, Michelle A. Marks, Stephen J. Zaccaro and Sean Marsh; Using synthetic naturalistic worlds to train teamwork and cooperation, Wayne Zachary, Jacqueline Scolaro, James Stokes, William Weiland and Tom Santarelli; Author index; Subject index.