2012 Webinar Profile
Authority, Responsibility, Adaptivity, and Cooperation
in Human-Automation Interaction
Presented by Thomas B. Sheridan, Ford Professor of Engineering and Applied Psychology Emeritus Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Dept of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
9:30-11:00 a.m. Pacific / 10:30-12:00 noon Mountain / 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Central / 12:30-2:00 p.m. Eastern / 5:30-7:00 p.m. GMT
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ABOUT THE WEBINAR
The words in this webinar’s title have interrelated and sometimes controversial meanings. Currently they are used by researchers to discuss salient issues concerning how people and machines do or should relate to one another in complex aviation, highway, military, medical, and industrial systems.
In this webinar the presenter will address the following questions:
- Should or can authority and responsibility always go together?
- Should humans always be in charge, as sometimes implied by the term “human-centered”?
- How smart and how useful can we expect decision support tools to be?
- How much information is too much information for a user to assimilate and utilize in the available time?
- What are the relations between levels of automation and adaptive automation in both direct and supervisory control?
- What does it take for humans and computers to “cooperate”?
- What are the trade-offs to designing for surprise?
- What are the hard-earned lessons from our experience in blaming people for failures?
- Should “automation policy” be developed to guide the design, operation, and management of highly automated systems so as to improve safety and efficiency?
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Thomas B. Sheridan is Ford Professor of Engineering and Applied Psychology Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics-Astronautics. He has an SM from the University of California, Los Angeles and an ScD from MIT. At MIT he headed the Human-Machine Systems Lab, doing research on aviation, highway, rail, and nuclear plant safety, as well as space, undersea, and medical telerobotics and other topics. Many of his graduate students are now faculty and three are current astronauts. Sheridan is a consultant to the U.S. Department of Transportation Volpe Center and recently served as Chief Systems Engineer for Human Factors for the Federal Aviation Administration.
Sheridan is a former president of both HFES and the Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He is the author or editor of five books on human performance modeling and more than 200 technical papers. He has served on numerous committees of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and other government agencies. He is the recipient of various honors from HFES, IEEE, and American Society of Mechanical Engineers, including an honorary doctorate from Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, and membership in the National Academy of Engineering.
REGISTRATION
HFES Members: This webinar is free! Registration for this webinar is available at https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/681975706.
Nonmembers: HFES invites you to attend this webinar. The registration fee is $125. Nonmember registration is available at https://www.hfes.org/Web/EventDetails.aspx?EventID=16. Payment by VISA, MasterCard, and American Express is secure and easy.
Nonmember Students: The registration fee is $40. Nonmember student registration ia available at https://www.hfes.org/Web/EventDetails.aspx?EventID=16. As with nonmember registration, payment can be made by VISA, MasterCard, or American Express.
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