Course objectives This is a graduate student class designed to examine the fundamental issues of human supervisory control, wherein humans interact with complex dynamic systems, mediated through various levels of automation this course will explore how humans interact with automated systems of varying complexities, what decision
Advantages of automation 16.422 · Improve efficiency productivity Task performance reliability Human safety both operators public Remote operations Reduction of human labor Technological advancements Improved quality of lif
How experts make decisions in the real world Descriptive method Stress, time-pressure, dynamic conditions, ambiguous information, and ill-defined goals Heuristics may introduce bias but can be very powerful Other related research areas
Research methods Qualitative Vs quantitative Understanding the relationship between objectives(research question) and variables is critical Information≠Data Information=data analysis Planning in advance is a must To include how data will be analyzed
