Expert Performance and Time Pressure: Implications for Automation Failures in Aviation

Abstract

Human-automation interaction has become one of the most important issues in aviation safety. Although automation generally increases air travel safety and efficiency, sudden automation failures have produced tragic results. Automation failure canrequire a previously disengaged human pilot to react immediately to counter a dangerous situation. In other words, automation failure can inflict time pressure on human expertise. Studies of expert performance have disagreed on how resistant it is to time pressure effects. This study examined time pressure effects on some of the most expert chess players in the world. The results show that time pressure can have profound effects even on extremely high-level expert performance. Implications for the aviation domain are discussed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2016
Accession Number
AD1015594

Entities

People

  • Michael A. Vidulich
  • Pamela Tsang

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Applied Psychology
  • Automation
  • Aviation Safety
  • Cognition
  • Cognitive Science
  • Commercial Aircraft
  • Commercial Aviation
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Data Processing
  • Flight Control Systems
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Information Processing
  • Psychology
  • Safety
  • Situational Awareness

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  • Educational Psychology
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.