Exploring Relationships of Human-Automation Interaction Consequences on Pilots: Uncovering Subsystems

The authors attempted to understand the latent structure underlying the systems pilots use to operate in situations involving human-automation interaction (HAI). Human-automation interaction is an important characteristic of many modern work situations. Of course, the cognitive subsystems are not immediately apparent by observing a functioning system, but correlations between variables may reveal important relations. The current report examined pilot judgments of 11 HAI dimensions (e.g., Workload, Task Management, Stress/Nervousness, Monitoring Automation, and Cross-Checking Automation) across 48 scenarios that required airline pilots to interact with automation on the flight deck. The authors found three major clusters of the dimensions identifying subsystems on the flight deck: a workload subsystem, a management subsystem, and an awareness subsystem. Relationships characterized by simple correlations cohered in ways that suggested underlying subsystems consistent with those that had previously been theorized. Understanding the relationship among dimensions affecting HAI is an important aspect in determining how a new piece of automation designed to affect one dimension will affect other dimensions as well.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1177/0018720814552296
• Record URL:
  • http://hfs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/57/3/397
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  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/00187208
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications, Ltd.
• Authors:
  • Durso, Francis T
  • Stearman, Eric J
  • Morrow, Daniel G
  • Mosier, Kathleen L
  • Fischer, Ute
  • Pop, Vlad L
  • Feigh, Karen M
• Publication Date: 2015-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Pagination: pp 397-406
• Serial:
  • Human Factors
  • Volume: 57
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Sage Publications, Incorporated
  • ISSN: 0018-7208
  • EISSN: 1547-8181
  • Serial URL: http://hfs.sagepub.com/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air pilots; Automation; Awareness; Flight decks; Interactive computer systems; Monitoring; Workload
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01562268
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 28 2015 3:09PM