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Brief paper: Ironies of automation

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Lisanne BainbridgeAuthors Info & Claims

Automatica (Journal of IFAC), Volume 19, Issue 6

Pages 775 - 779

https://doi.org/10.1016/0005-1098(83)90046-8

Published: 01 November 1983 Publication History

Abstract

This paper discusses the ways in which automation of industrial processes may expand rather than eliminate problems with the human operator. Some comments will be made on methods of alleviating these problems within the 'classic' approach of leaving the operator with responsibility for abnormal conditions, and on the potential for continued use of the human operator for on-line decision-making within human-computer collaboration.

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Automatica (Journal of IFAC) Volume 19, Issue 6

November, 1983

194 pages

ISSN:0005-1098

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