Cognitive Control of Human Activities and Errors: Implications for Ecological Interface Design

摘要

The approach to reliable human-system interaction will be to design interfaces which tend to minimize the potential for control interference and support the recovery from errors, i.e., to focus on control of the effects of errors rather than on the elimination of errors per se. This paper suggests a theoretical framework for interface design that attempts to meet these objectives. The goal of ecological interface design (EID) is to develop a meaningful representation of the process which is not just optimized for one particular level of cognitive control, but that supports all three levels simultaneously. The paper discusses the necessary requirements for a mapping between the process and the combined action/observation surface, and analyses the influence on the interferences causing error and on the opportunity for error recovery left to the operator.