Law enforcement and military operators are intensively trained and evaluated on their taskwork skills during room clearing procedures (e.g., speed of room entry, firing position, firing accuracy; Salas et al., 2008). As these teams become expert in their procedures, teamwork skills and processes (e.g., team coordination, backup behaviors, shared situational awareness) become critical factors in their ultimate performance and error avoidance (Salas et al., 2001). Extant research has demonstrated how various unobtrusive sensors can be used to evaluate teamwork skills and processes (Dubrow et al., 2017). For example, data collected from RFID tags, such as physical location, proximity to team members, speed, and orientation can be used as proxy measures for shared situational awareness, effort, and coordination (Feese et al., 2013, 2014; Kranzfelder et al., 2011). The current paper provides a technology demonstration of how unobtrusive RFID data collection, coupled with visualizations, analytics, and live video feeds, can be used to help improve teamwork training in expert teams. Lab data of individuals replicating publicly available standard operating procedures for room clearing in a shoot house are used to show how instructors may use the system during teamwork training sessions to help accomplish training objectives. Metrics such as physical distribution of Operators, entry speed, and orientation are used as proxies for teamwork states and processes including coordination, effort, and shared situational awareness (Feese et al., 2014; Kranzfelder et al., 2011). The paper demonstrates how data collected from RFID tags and cameras can be used to provide immediate replay of metrics, visualizations, and video to show changing Operator locations and orientations to augment current instructor training methods to meet teamwork training objectives.
Keywords
AFTER ACTION REVIEW (AAR), ANALYTICS, COLLABORATIVE, HUMAN FACTORS, HUMAN PERFORMANCE, TEAM TRAINING
Additional Keywords
RFID