The Man-Machine Interface.

Abstract

Our basic objective was to define a composite measure of human capabilities that could also be used to measure the skill requirements of various manufacturing tasks. In the course of our research, however, we have come to the conclusion that most human workers (at least in the semiskilled categories) are not employed for their manual skills, or dexterity, but for a different purpose. Although our basic objective remains unchanged, our research focus has shifted to the emerging competition between human workers as machine process controllers in certain highly engineered environments, and the use of sensor-based, computerized systems for the same purpose. Origingator-supplied keywords: Automation, Precision control, Computer applications, Machines, Mechanization. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA149971

Entities

People

  • R. U. Ayres

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Automation
  • Computer Vision
  • Control Systems
  • Engineering
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Human-Machine Interfaces
  • Information Processing
  • Machine Tools
  • Manufacturing
  • Materials
  • Materials Processing
  • Mechanization
  • Parallel Computing
  • Parallel Processing
  • Psychology
  • Robots
  • Standards

Readers

  • Industrial Economics
  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.
  • Robotics and Automation.