Young Investigator Program (8.5): Preventing Complex Failures of Human Interactive Systems with Erroneous Behavior Generation and Robust Human Task Behavior Patterns

Abstract

Task 1.1 defined our erroneous behavior taxonomy based on where and why erroneous behaviors occur as deviations from task models. To accomplish this, we defined our taxonomy using the Enhanced Operator Function Model (EOFM) (an example is shown in Fig. 1). EOFM is appropriate for this because it has a formal semantics(Fig. 2) that describes exactly how a task model rendered in it can be performed. This treats every activity and action as a finite state machine to explicitly represent how a task should execute normatively. A human who erroneously diverges from a task will do so by violating the formal semantics of a task. Thus, our taxonomy classifies erroneous human behavior based on how the formal semantics are violated. The nature of the violation shows us at which activity or action the divergent behavior occurred, what the erroneous behaviors was, and which part of the formal semantics were violated (not properly attended to by the human).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 13, 2017
Accession Number
AD1051258

Entities

People

  • Matthew L Bolton

Organizations

  • State University of New York

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Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • C4I

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Case Studies
  • Classification
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Friendly Fire
  • Fuel Tanks
  • Helicopters
  • Human Behavior
  • Intrusion
  • New York
  • Phenotypes
  • Semantics
  • Solenoids
  • Specifications
  • Taxonomy
  • Unmanned Aerial Systems

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  • Biology
  • Computer science

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