Designing human-centered automation: trade-offs in collision avoidance system design

  • Authors:
  • M. A. Goodrich;E. R. Boer

  • Affiliations:
  • Res. & Dev., Nissan Cambridge Basic Res., MA, USA;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Human-centered automation problems have multiple attributes: an attribute reflecting human goals and capabilities, and an attribute reflecting automation goals and capabilities. In the absence of a general theory of human interaction with complex systems, it is difficult to define and find a unique optimal multiattribute resolution to these competing design requirements. We develop a systematic approach to such problems using a multiattribute decomposition of human and automation goals. This paradigm uses both the satisficing decision principle which is unique to two-attribute problems, and the domination principle which is a common manifestation of the optimality principle in multiattribute domains. As applied to human-centered automation in advanced vehicle systems, the decision method identifies performance evaluations and compares the safety benefit of a system intervention against the cost to the human operator. We illustrate the method by analyzing an automated system to prevent lane departures