Optimising the balance between task automation and human manual control in simulated submarine track management

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Abstract

Automation can improve operator performance and reduce workload, but can also degrade operator situation awareness (SA) and the ability to regain manual control. This project explored strategies for automation design through low-level automation and limiting automation to periods of higher workload. We found the automation still provided limited benefit to workload and performance, but SA was still degraded. Performance on a concurrent non-automated task was also degraded. We concluded that the cost of automation might not be sufficiently mitigated with these strategies, and that more work is needed to ensure that operators perform optimally during automation support.
Original languageEnglish
QualificationDoctor of Philosophy
Awarding Institution
  • The University of Western Australia
Supervisors/Advisors
  • Visser, Troy, Supervisor
  • Loft, Shayne, Supervisor
  • Huf, Samuel, Supervisor, External person
Award date18 Mar 2019
DOIs
Publication statusUnpublished - 2019

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