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MICRO TO MACRO DYNAMICS OF SHARED AWARENESS EMERGENCE IN SITUATIONS THEORY: TOWARDS A GENERAL THEORY OF SHARED AWARENESS Samuel F. Kovacic Old Dominion University, 2013 Director: Dr. Andres Sousa-Poza Engineering Management is an interdisciplinary field of study. As such, Engineering Management must rely on the energies of its participants to integrate toward the problem being solved. Many techniques exist to aid the researcher towards a common goal; however, it can only be surmised on how effective the techniques have been. Not until the activity is over and the participants reflect back on their results can they know whether they shared a common understanding of the problem. This study explores the emergence of shared awareness based the interactions of disparate perspectives at a particulate level. The study builds from observations of a real-world problem and explores how shared awareness emerges. Given the shared nature of multiple disciplinary approaches quantifying shared awareness would seem particularly important. It is not enough to say that shared awareness has occurred; more importantly it is necessary to know when shared awareness has occurred and with whom and what the conditions were for shared awareness in situ. Since any given project is longitudinal in nature, change is inevitable. With change comes different conditions for shared awareness; it cannot be assumed that shared awareness is sustained through change. Without knowing the prior conditions for shared awareness there is nothing to compare with when change has occurred. This study attempts to quantify when the emergent state of shared awareness has occurred and by extension the conditions where awareness is shared within a group o f individuals. Most importantly, this study will provide a method for studying shared awareness [probability threshold] using percolation theory. Percolation is one of numerous techniques being developed out of statistical mechanics. Statistical mechanics (reinterpreted for the use in this study) provides a framework for relating the microscopic properties of individual atoms and molecules [individual] to the macroscopic bulk properties of materials [whole] that can be observed in everyday life (Albert, 2002). An experiment is proposed to test the hypothesis formed within the study and canons to substantiate the findings of the experiment. Ultimately, the study proposes a General Theory for Shared Awareness that provides a foundation for further research. All that I am and who I strive to be is for one person alone, my soul-mate and wife Lynne. She has shown me that beyond hubris and arrogance is humility and it is from this position that learning and understanding is greatest. I am in her debt as an author, a scholar, and a person and dedicate the success of this work to her alone. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS To attempt to thank in this acknowledgement all those that have contributed or supported me in my academic pursuit would jeopardize or marginalize not listing all the many excellent contributors that were ‘part-and-parcel’ to this work. Suffice it to say it takes a village to raise a scholar and many thanks are extended to each and every villager. However, a special ‘thank you’ goes out to Dr. William Welsh, Dr. Chuck Keating, Dr. Jose Padilla, Dr. Nina Mun, and Mr. Richard Myers, for providing support ‘above and beyond’ that I could not have hoped to expect. Additionally, my deepest appreciation and gratitude goes to my committee members: Dr. Van Brewer, Dr. Adrian Gheorghe, and Dr. Ghaith Rabadi. Above all, I would like to thank Dr. Andres Sousa-Poza, my committee chair, for his support and insistence to follow my passion. Rather than guide me through a maze of all that is known, Dr. Sousa-Poza challenged me (continuously) to explore beyond what was known and provided focus for my passion for deriving an understanding of the unknown. His influence is imprinted in this work and will always be present on all my future work as a scholar. TABLE OF CONTENTS Page LIST OF T ABLES  ix LIST OF FIGURES  x Chapter INTRODUCTION1 1.1. Background 1 1.2. What is Being Proposed !....7 1.3. Purpose 12 1.4. Research Objectives13 1.5. Significance of this Study 14 LITERATURE REVIEW15 2.1. Anthropological Journey on Shared Awareness15 2.2. Complex[ity]and Awareness33 2.3. Shared Awareness 44 CONCEPT48 3.1. Nature of Shared Awareness 48 3.2. Conditions for Shared Awareness 51 3.3. Factors to Consider for Studying Shared Awareness53 3.4. A Theory for Explaining Emergence 55 3.5. Percolation Theory Applied to Shared Awareness59 METHODOLOGY 63 4.1. Inductive Rationalism63 4.2. M ethod65 4.3. Discussion of the Canons69 4.4. Experimentation Protocols71 4.5 Experimentation Element Coding 74 4.6 Specific Code per Experiment77 RESULTS 80 5.1. Confidence in the Conclusions Drawn80 5.2. Experiment 1: Homogeneous Population81

Micro to Macro Dynamics of Shared Awareness Emergence in Situations Theory: Towards a General Theory of Shared Awareness