Accession Number:

ADA516567

Title:

Asymmetric Attention: Visualizing the Uncertain Threat

Descriptive Note:

Final rept. Sep 2008-Sep 2009

Corporate Author:

ARMY RESEARCH INST FIELD UNIT FORT HOOD TX

Personal Author(s):

• Vowels, Christopher L.

Report Date:

2010-03-01

Pagination or Media Count:

58.0

Abstract:

This report attempts to fuse Army needs, specific to threat detection, with available evidence from academia and military sources. The report provides viable routes for short-term enhancement of threat detection training and long-term goals of a research program dedicated to improving the Armys understanding of threat detection. This review found two major avenues of research, visual attention and visual memory that would benefit research and understanding of attention and threat detection for current and future operational environments. Based on the review, at least three sequential skills are discussed as necessary for understanding and improving threat detection attentiveness, recognition, and action. These skills orient and guide the Soldier in operational settings from the basic perceptual process at the attentiveness stage up through higher-order reasoning at the action stage. Training formats are explored including still images and high-fidelity simulations, all of which could be scaffolded upon a deliberate practice framework.

Descriptors:

• *THREATS
• *SKILLS
• *DETECTION
• IMPROVISED EXPLOSIVE DEVICES
• SNIPERS
• VISUAL PERCEPTION
• RECONNAISSANCE
• ATTENTION
• ASYMMETRIC WARFARE
• PATROLLING
• ARMY TRAINING
• ARMY PERSONNEL
• MEMORY(PSYCHOLOGY)

Subject Categories:

• Psychology
• Unconventional Warfare

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE