Presentation
Human As Automation Failsafe: Concept, Implications, Guidelines and Innovations
SessionCEDM3 - Humans as Failsafe
Moderator
Event Type
Discussion Panel
Cognitive Engineering & Decision Making
TimeTuesday, October 11th3:30pm - 5:00pm EDT
LocationA706
DescriptionHumans are frequently left to “backstop” automated systems, and Human Factors specialists have argued against this for decades with, at best, partial success. What if we took a different tack... and designed to support it? The participants were involved in a recent effort to review and document cases across multiple domains where operators acted as a “failsafe” for automation, intervening in unanticipated situations to maximize of success and minimize damage. We defined a “Human As Failsafe” (HAF) incident and then investigated conditions and practices making HAF success more or less likely. Analyzing these historical incidents, we suggested remediation approaches. The project also examined the legal concept of culpability (i.e., when intervention should have happened but didn’t) and proposed a state-machine-based analytic simulation to identify when HAF interventions are plausible. The panel objective will be to briefly present these concepts, but more generally to discuss designing for inevitable HAF events.
Moderator
Chief Scientist