THEORETICAL ASSUMPTIONS AND SCIENTIFIC ARCHITECTURE

Abstract

Army and Joint Transformation initiatives in U.S. national defense (Shinseki, 2000) underscore the need to plan and meet mission requirements for individual soldier and small unit deployment in “close fight” scenarios (e.g. close combat, direct fire, complex terrain). This has focused interest and attention on the need for improved individual human performance research data, models, and high-fidelity simulations that can accurately represent human behavior in individual and small unit settings. New strategies are now needed to bridge the gap between performance outcome assessment and prediction (see also Pew & Mavor, 1998). The purpose of this chapter is to address epistemological and methodological issues that are fundamentally relevant to this goal.

Citation

Ness, M.J.W. and Tepe, V. (2004), "THEORETICAL ASSUMPTIONS AND SCIENTIFIC ARCHITECTURE", Ness, J.W., Tepe, V. and Ritzer, D.R. (Ed.) The Science and Simulation of Human Performance (Advances in Human Performance and Cognitive Engineering Research, Vol. 5), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 127-155. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1479-3601(04)05002-7