The Impact of Type and Level of Automation on Situation Awareness and Performance in Human-Robot Interaction

In highly autonomous robotic systems, human operators are able to attend to their own, separate tasks, rather than directly operating the robot to accomplish their immediate task(s). At the same time, as operators attend to their own, separate tasks that do not directly involve the robotic system, t...

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Published inEngineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics. Understanding Human Cognition pp. 252 - 260
Main Authors Schuster, David, Jentsch, Florian, Fincannon, Thomas, Ososky, Scott
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2013
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Subjects
automation
Human-robot interaction
robot design
situation awareness
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ISBN9783642393594
3642393594
ISSN0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI10.1007/978-3-642-39360-0_28

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Summary:In highly autonomous robotic systems, human operators are able to attend to their own, separate tasks, rather than directly operating the robot to accomplish their immediate task(s). At the same time, as operators attend to their own, separate tasks that do not directly involve the robotic system, they can end up lacking situation awareness (SA) when called on to recover from automation failure or from an unexpected event. In this paper, we describe the mechanisms of this problem, known as the out-of-the-loop performance problem, and describe why the problem may still exist in future robotic systems. Existing solutions to the problem, which focus on the level of automation, are reviewed. We describe our current empirical work, which aims to expand upon taxonomies of levels of automation to better understand how engineers of robotic systems may mitigate the problem.
ISBN:9783642393594
3642393594
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-39360-0_28