Evaluation of decision making processes in critical situations

Emergency services, policemen and members of the armed forces act in high workload environments where fast and correct decisions are essential. Therefore, decision criterions and automated processes play an important role in drill and training. The evaluation of the trainees' performance is usually based on subjective ratings by the instructors, which depend on the availability of many instructors to provide individual feedback. The goal of our ongoing research work is to develop evaluation techniques that enable objective ratings for the trainees' performance. As gaze behavior is seen as key element of trainees' performance, tracing methods are evaluated and head-mounted eye tracking is ascertained as promising. Furthermore, we give an overview about ongoing work, including software (laboratory experiment) and hardware development (field experiment) of an objective rating tool.