Mostly psychologists, but some contributors from other fields as well, explore how human factors affect the risk of error in combat identification, and how that risk can be reduced in
increasingly complex battlespace. In sections on cognitive processes, visual discrimination, situation awareness, teams, and automation, they consider such topics as measuring vigilance
abilities to enhance combat identification performance, what visual discrimination of fractal textures reveals about discriminating camouflaged targets, team coordination and shared situation
awareness in combat identification, comparing individual and team judgment accuracy for target identification under heavy cognitive demand, results from a new behavioral rating instrument
concerning team cognition during a simulated close air support exercise, the effects of automation bias on operator compliance and reliance, and mitigating friendly fire casualties through
enhanced battle command capabilities. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
