Improvisation in Emergency Response Organizations: A Cognitive Approach

本研究的目的是提供知识基础，以提高应急响应组织的能力，即兴。 人们充分认识到，需要以培训和实时决策辅助的形式支持即兴发挥。 这个项目的理论基础将是一个决策逻辑模型的认知过程中即兴表现出来，例如，在记录的紧急反应的情况下。 在三个实验中的第一个实验中，将评估决策逻辑的有效性，以评估其支持决策者形成与实时问题解决任务相关的即兴创作的能力。 在最后的实验中，该逻辑将被嵌入到一个决策支持系统中，并在两个独立的游戏情况下进行测试，一个在欧洲，一个在美国。 这项研究的主要贡献将是提供（1）指导方针，体现在培训材料和决策援助准备应急管理人员在即兴，和（2）决策支持系统的过程中即兴在应急响应。

The objective of this research is to provide the knowledge base to improve the capability of emergency response organizations to improvise. The need for support in improvisation in the form of training and real-time decision aids is well recognized. The theoretical bases for this project will be a decision logic which models cognitive processes in improvisation as evinced, for example, in documented cases of emergency response. In the first of three experiments, the efficancy of the decision logic will be assessed with respect to its ability to support decision makers in fashioning improvisations which are relevant to a task in real-time provlem solving. For the final experiments, the logic will be embedded in a decision support system and tested in two separate gaming situations, one in Eurpoe and one in the United States. The principal contributions of this research will be in providing (1) guidelines as embodied in training materials and a decision aid for preparing emergency managers in improvise, and (2) a decision support system for the processof improvisation in emergency response.