Teamwork through interaction with air systems

Purpose and goal

In teamwork research, models are used to understand how teamwork is pursued and to identify the core factors that are essential for a team to be effective. The project has investigated how the design of complex systems can benefit from taking the teamwork perspective.

Expected results and effects

The studied team models are general and in order to be practically useful when designing interfaces and tools for teams, these models was applied to the specific domains in question which was performed in the project. This means that the factors have been interpreted in the environment and circumstances the team is actually working in. Therefore, in this project, two different flight domains where teamwork is an essential and integrated part of the work process was analysed and compared. The teams investigated were military fighter pilots and air traffic controllers.

Planned approach and implementation

In both applications the cooperation was dependent on technical systems and its system design influencing the nature of the cooperation. The project has investigated and contrasted teamwork in the two applications, both against the model and between each other, with the purpose of guiding design that is aiming at increase the cooperation in each application.