Situation Awareness with the Limited Visual Attention

Abstract

Situation awareness (SA) is the perception of the elements in the environment within a volume of time and space, the comprehension of their meaning, and the projection of their status in the near future (Endsley M. 1988). A critical aspect of the situation awareness (SA) problem is that agents must construct an overall view of a dynamically changing world using limited sensor channels. For instance, a (virtual) pilot, who visually tracks the location and direction of several vehicles that he cannot see simultaneously, must shift its visual field of view to scan the environment and to sense the situation involved. We developed the perceptual coordination that helps a virtual pilot efficiently track one or more objects. Simulation worlds usually offered all information to virtual humans. However, providing all information to the