Workload-Adaptive Human Interface to Aid Robust Decision Making in Human-System Interface. Year 1 Report

Abstract

This report summarizes activity from the first year of a three-year project on aiding decision making in human-system interface. This report includes description of a new adaptive automation design model, allowing system designers the ability to visually and systematically evaluate the placement of adaptive automation within a system network. This model aids the designer to isolate the tasks, which require human decision making, ideally permitting tasks to be automated which do not require human decisions. A tool for evaluating adaptive automation, referred to as Space Navigator has been developed. This game has been designed using the model, has allowed us (and future researchers) to simplify data gathering from human participants. The resulting automation system will allow for research into how similarity and difference of actions between a human-machine team affect the overall performance of the system. The final experimental data will provide several areas of further research including trust in automation, training improvement, workload reduction (actual and perceived), and task load switching.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 30, 2014
Accession Number
ADA601227

Entities

People

  • Brent Langhals
  • Gilbert L. Peterson
  • Jason Bindewald
  • Michael Miller

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • Cyber
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Adaptive Systems
  • Air Force
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Cognitive Systems Engineering
  • Cognitive Workload
  • Control Systems
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Human Systems Integration
  • Human-Machine Interaction
  • Human-Machine Interfaces
  • Human-Machine Systems
  • Medical Personnel
  • Motor Skills
  • Psychology
  • Situational Awareness
  • Systems Engineering
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

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

Technology Areas

  • Space