Human Information Processing Guidelines for Decision-Aiding Displays

摘要

Decision-aiding is one means of alleviating the high workload and time constraints typical of combat situations. The purpose of a decision-aid is to reduce the operator's information processing load while structuring the problem so that the operator can make the final choice. As opposed to automation, the operator is not replaced in the decision loop, instead he is freed from complex computational, memorial and processing requirements allowing him to concentrate on the consequences of the action he selects. This report is the result of a literature search of human information processing research. The purpose was to provide baseline data from which decision-aid design guidelines could be developed. A decision aid does not replace the operator but rather interacts with the operator as part of a decision-making system, therefore some indication of how the human processes and remembers information is necessary in order to design such an aid. The general outline of the report will consist of two major areas: (1) human memory systems and (2) human processing systems.