HUMAN-AUTOMATION COLLABORATION IN DYNAMIC MISSION PLANNING:A CHALLENGE REQUIRING AN ECOLOGICAL APPROACH

摘要

The US Navy is funding the development of advanced automation systems to plan and execute unmannedvehicles missions, pushing towards a higher level of autonomy for automated planning systems. Witheffective systems, the human could play a role of mission manager and automation systems could performmission planning and execution tasks with limited human involvement. Evaluations of the automationsystems currently under development are identifying critical conflicts between human operatorexpectations and automated planning results. This paper presents a model of this human-automationinteraction system and summarizes the resulting system design effort. This model provides a theoryexplaining the source of conflict between human and automation, and predicts that an ecological approachto display design would reduce that conflict. Based on that prediction, the paper describes initial results ofan ecological approach to system analysis and design, intended to improve human-automation interactionfor these types of advanced automation systems.