Betty Bolte

Widow Martha Custis seeks a husband to provide a father figure for her children. Colonel George Washington takes an interest in her and she in him, which leads her life down an uncertain path as British oppression leads to revolution. George is torn between duty and Martha, but she follows her heart. Straight into a dark and dangerous future....

Becoming Lady Washington

Mica R. Endsley

Debra G. Jones

An Approach to User-Centered Design

Designing for Situation Awareness

Notes of Love and War

Under Lock and Key

Enhancing Situation Awareness (SA) is a major design goal for projects in many fields, including aviation, ground transportation, air traffic control, nuclear power, and medicine, but little information exists in an integral format to support this goal. Designing for Situation Awareness helps designers understand how people acquire and interpret information in complex settings and recognize the factors that undermine this process. Designing to support operator SA reduces the incidence of human error, which has been found to occur largely due to failures in SA. Whereas many previous human factors efforts have focused on design at the perceptual and surface feature level, SA-oriented design focuses on the operator's information needs and cognitive processes as they juggle to integrate information from many sources and achieve multiple competing goals. Thus it addresses design from a system's perspective. By applying theoretical and empirical information on SA to the system design process, human factors practitioners can create designs to support SA across a wide variety of domains and design issues. This book serves as a helpful reference to that end.

Betty Bolte

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