Measuring Situation Awareness in Computer Mediated Discussion

  • Jia Li
  • Xuan Liu
  • Zhigao Chen
  • Pengzhu Zhang
Part of the Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing book series (AINSC, volume 116)

Abstract

Situation awareness is an important factor in successful computer mediated group discussion, yet the related metrics have been lacking. To fill in that gap, we propose 13 metrics from 3 aspects to systematically reflect discussion situation using hierarchical discussion as an example. This research can be considered as the first attempt to answer what a fully understanding of discussion situation is and how to measure it.

Keywords

situation awareness computer mediated discussion measurement hierarchical discussion 

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Jia Li
    • 1
  • Xuan Liu
    • 1
  • Zhigao Chen
    • 1
  • Pengzhu Zhang
    • 2
  1. 1.School of BusinessEast China University of Science and TechnologyShanghaiChina
  2. 2.Antai School of Economics and ManagementShanghai Jiaotong UniversityShanghaiChina

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