Unique Products
Designer's Situation Awareness Toolkit (DeSAT) is a multi-faceted design decision system that provides robust design support for the entire design cycle.
Situational Awareness Products

Designing outstanding systems to support high-level situation awareness requires three phases:

  • Analyzing Situation Awareness (SA) Requirements
  • Applying Situation Awareness-Oriented Design Principles
  • Measuring Situation Awareness (SA) during Design Evaluation

Designers rely on our Designer’s Situation Awareness Toolkit to provide support for each phase of the process. The comprehensive multimedia tutorials and application specific tools in DeSAT help designers establish SA requirements, create design concepts to support user SA and identify potential design problems and deficiencies.

DeSAT Tool Suite includes:

Situation Awareness Requirements Analysis
Support for the first phase of design.

GDTA Tool

  • Helps create graphic representations of the GDTA
  • Documents goals, decisions, and SA requirements

GDTA Checklist Tool

  • Helps assess designs to ensure requirements are met
  • Utilizes database created by GDTA tool
  • Creates a list of requirements missing from the design

GDTA Tutorial

  • Explains the purpose of the analysis
  • Describes how to construct a GDTA
  • Offers techniques for data collection and organization

Situation Awareness-Oriented Design
Basic support for the design phase includes:

Design Guidelines Tools

  • Provides designing guidelines for SA support
  • Content includes:
    • Relevant questions
    • Examples
    • References
    • Design and testing issues
  • Includes human factors and design principles:
    • General design principles
    • Visual & Auditory displays
    • Team operations
    • Managing uncertainty & complexity
    • Automation
    • Controls
    • Alarms and alerts

Situation Awareness-Oriented Design Tutorial

  • Describes 50 SA-Oriented Design Principles
  • Includes three modules:
    1. General design issues & managing uncertainty
    2. Complexity and Alarms
    3. Automation and Team SA

Situation Awareness Measurement with SAGAT
Situation Awareness Global Assessment Technique (SAGAT) is the gold standard for SA measurement and includes:

SuperSAGAT Tool(also available separately)

  • Allows users to easily create SAGAT queries
  • Administers SAGAT queries to participants
  • Permits queries selection appropriate for condition
  • Allows queries to be administered at each stop or at a fixed length of time for each stop
  • Formats data for export into statistical packages

SAGAT Tutorial

  • Includes basic principles, how to administer SAGAT during an experiment and how to analyze data.

 

Pricing information is as follows:

DeSAT Tool Suite (all 3 products: GDTA, SA-Oriented Design, and SuperSAGAT tools and tutorials)

1-5 copies: $1,895 each
6 or more copies: $1,395 each
Site license: $20,000
Educational price:? $895 each

SuperSAGAT (tool and tutorial) Only

Per copy:? $1,199 each
Educational price: $499/each

Payment can be arranged by check or electronically through Paypal.