Designing for flexible interaction between humans and automation: Delegation interfaces for supervisory control

Human Factors

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 57-75

  Miller, Christopher A ^a   Parasuraman, Raja ^b  

^a SMART INFORMATION FLOW TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

DELEGATION INTERFACES; FLEXIBLE INTERACTION; SITUATION AWARENESS; SUPERVISORY CONTROL;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

ARTICLE; AUTHORITY; AUTOMATION; COST; HUMAN; HUMAN FACTORS RESEARCH; MACHINE; MAN MACHINE INTERACTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKLOAD;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AIRCRAFT; AUTOMATION; AVIATION; AWARENESS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS; ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WORKLOAD;

EID: 33846615835     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/001872007779598037     Document Type: Article

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