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For safe driving it is an inevitable precondition that the driver possesses a correct mental representation of the current traffic situation, the situation model. This mental representation not only involves a representation of objects and situational features relevant to the driver’s behaviour, but also the driver’s expectations about the future development of the traffic situation. A concept that describes the processes and the factors influencing them is situation awareness (SA) [1]. Until now the cognitive mechanisms underlying situation awareness have been far from properly understood. In this paper we propose a process model of situation awareness that views the construction of the situation model as a comprehension process comparable to discourse comprehension. Two experiments will be presented briefly that address some predictions derived from this model. The last section of the paper describes a current project that aims at implementing this model in the cognitive architecture ACT-R.
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Baumann, M.R.K., Krems, J.F. (2009). A Comprehension Based Cognitive Model of Situation Awareness. In: Duffy, V.G. (eds) Digital Human Modeling. ICDHM 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5620. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02809-0_21
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