Smart Automation Enhances Safety: A Motion for Debate

It is difficult to attempt to structure the benefits and hazards of rapidly evolving technologies within an envelope that defines what is safe, feasible, and economically viable. Experts may not have a neat solution, but they can sometimes use experience and wisdom to strike a spark that illuminates...

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Published in:Ergonomics in design 1996-10, Vol.4 (4), p.19-23
Main Authors: Van Cott, Harold P., Wiener, Earl L., Wickens, Christopher D., Blackman, Harold S., Sheridan, Thomas B.
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:It is difficult to attempt to structure the benefits and hazards of rapidly evolving technologies within an envelope that defines what is safe, feasible, and economically viable. Experts may not have a neat solution, but they can sometimes use experience and wisdom to strike a spark that illuminates the issue. Toward this end, four authorities in human performance and automation debated at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, held in San Diego in 1995. This report is a condense version of the lively debate that ensued.
ISSN:1064-8046
2169-5083
DOI:10.1177/106480469600400405