On the independence of compliance and reliance: Are automation false alarms worse than misses?

Human Factors

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 564-572

  Dixon, Stephen R ^a,b   Wickens, Christopher D ^a,c   McCarley, Jason S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Micro Analysis & Design Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALARM-PRONE AUTOMATION; COMPLIANCE-RELIANCE CONSTRUCTS; DIAGNOSTIC AUTOMATION; FALSE ALARMS;

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; REGULATORY COMPLIANCE;

ALARM SYSTEMS;

ALARM MONITOR; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OPERATOR; SIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACCIDENTS, AVIATION; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; ILLINOIS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WORKLOAD;

EID: 34547177224     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/001872007X215656     Document Type: Article

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