This article examines the concept of Situation Awareness (SA) and its crucial role in high-risk environments. SA involves the capacity to perceive, comprehend, and anticipate the conditions of various elements within the environment. The paper elaborates on three aspects of SA: perception of environmental elements, comprehension of situations, and prediction of future states. It highlights that individuals with proficient SA can not only capture pertinent information but also synthesize it to foresee potential outcomes. Additionally, the article addresses the challenges in quantifying SA, typically using direct measures and methods that assess SA through analysis of operator actions or performance. It also discusses several physiological metrics, such as heart rate, electroencephalography (EEG), eye-tracking, and pupillary response, which can serve as indirect indicators of an individual's situational awareness.

Lifei Xu, Ruiying Xie. Physiological Monitoring of Situational Awareness. The Frontiers of Society, Science and Technology (2024), Vol. 6, Issue 7: 35-39. https://doi.org/10.25236/FSST.2024.060706.

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