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ARA uses behavioral psychology to
develop decision-centered solutions for understanding the interactions
of people with technology, products, situations, and other people.
The combining of these cognitive capabilities with other ARA technical
capabilities in the physical sciences enable ARA to bring a unique
problem solving capability to our client’s problems.
Our solutions enhance the performance of those
confronted with judgments and decisions in situations marked by high
stakes, time pressure, ambiguous or conflicting information, or
rapidly changing situations. We develop these solutions through
understanding of how decision-makers process personal experience that
they encounter within the context of their own environments.
Our staff is composed of individuals
with backgrounds in psychology and human factors, and interests in a
range of related areas including: decision making, cognitive science,
memory processes, problem solving, cognitive systems engineering,
human computer interaction, and the nature of expertise.
Our methods
span the breadth of cognitive/psychology methods with both
quantitative and qualitative approaches. We have applied our methods
to domains of expertise and developed solutions for them to
include: consumer decision making, operational command centers,
weather forecasters, firefighters, critical care nurses and
physicians, air traffic controllers, electronic warfare specialists,
pilots, civil law mediators, FAA inspectors, systems analysts,
software program debuggers, AWACS weapons directors, battle
planners, intelligence analysts, military commanders, and submarine
sonar operators.
ARA’s work approaches applied cognition from the
following perspectives:
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