The last few years showed that a high risk of asynchronous threats is given in every day life. Especially in large crowds a high probability of asynchronous attacks is evident. High observational abilities to detect threats are desirable. Consequently highly trained security and observation personal is needed. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of a training methodology to enhance performance of observation personnel engaging in a specific target identification task. For this purpose a crowd simulation video is utilized. The study first provides a measurement of the base performance before the training sessions. Furthermore a training procedure will be performed. Base performance will then be compared to the after training performance in order to look for a training effect. A thorough evaluation of both the training sessions as well as the overall performance will be done in this paper. A specific hypotheses based metric is used. Results will be discussed in order to provide guidelines for the design of training for observational tasks.

Date Published: 30 November 2016
PDF: 8 pages
Proc. SPIE 9997, Target and Background Signatures II, 99970K (30 November 2016); doi: 10.1117/12.2241981

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 9997:
Target and Background Signatures II
Karin U. Stein; Ric H. M. A. Schleijpen, Editor(s)