Formalizing the information requirements for decision-making of field managers during indoor construction activities

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dc.contributor.authorPillajo, Ernesto
dc.contributor.authorMourgues, Claudio
dc.contributor.authorGonzalez, Vicente A.
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-20T17:12:07Z
dc.date.available2025-01-20T17:12:07Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractPurpose - Information technology provides important support for on-site decision-making of field personnel. Most literature focuses on the technological aspects of decision-support systems, without fully understanding the information required for effective decision-making. This study aimed to formalize decision-makers' requirements in terms of the major goals, decisions and information.Design/methodology/approach - The situation awareness (SA) approach was applied through the goal directed task analysis (GDTA) method, narrowing the scope to field managers' decision-making during indoor construction activities. This method was based on a series of interviews to define, revise and validate the decision-making requirements for the given scope.Findings - The study yielded 1,056 highly interrelated elements. The results indicate that the field manager's overall goal is to execute and handoff work within the established deadlines, with the required quality, maximizing profits, within a safe work environment. The overall goal construes into five main goals regarding work progress, quality, costs, safety and communication. These goals include subgoals, decisions, and the information necessary to attain them, depicted in diagrams.Practical implications - The findings allow enhancing the design of decision-support solutions by identifying information required for future developments and showing the interrelations between goals and information requirements that need to be addressed to present interfaces for effectively assisting on-site decision-making. Moreover, the results allow for the assessment of solutions regarding the sufficiency of information.Originality/value - This is the first effort to fully understand the information required by field managers for on-site decision-making during indoor construction activities.
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.1108/ECAM-07-2022-0674
dc.identifier.eissn1365-232X
dc.identifier.issn0969-9988
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1108/ECAM-07-2022-0674
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/91232
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:000971707900001
dc.issue.numero10
dc.language.isoen
dc.pagina.final4145
dc.pagina.inicio4125
dc.revistaEngineering construction and architectural management
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectInformation requirements
dc.subjectDecision-making
dc.subjectGoal-directed task analysis
dc.subjectConstruction
dc.titleFormalizing the information requirements for decision-making of field managers during indoor construction activities
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen31
sipa.indexWOS
sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
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