  Shared mental models are critical to team success; however, in practice, team
members may have misaligned models due to a variety of factors. In
safety-critical domains (e.g., aviation, healthcare), lack of shared mental
models can lead to preventable errors and harm. Towards the goal of mitigating
such preventable errors, here, we present a Bayesian approach to infer
misalignment in team members' mental models during complex healthcare task
execution. As an exemplary application, we demonstrate our approach using two
simulated team-based scenarios, derived from actual teamwork in cardiac
surgery. In these simulated experiments, our approach inferred model
misalignment with over 75% recall, thereby providing a building block for
enabling computer-assisted interventions to augment human cognition in the
operating room and improve teamwork.
