COMPEIT D2.2 Ethical impact analysis: WP 2 User needs and domain analysis

sCEthics: Embedding Ethical Values in Cognitive Engineering

Contemporary and future technologies are getting more intelligent and connect easily to one another, potentially leading to conflicts with human ethical values. Value Sensitive Design (VSD) is promising for its focus on ethical values but lacks an explicit and systematical elicitation of requirements, which is targeted explicitly in the situated...

ePartners for Dynamic Task Allocation and Coordination

This dissertation promotes a focus shift from automation extending human capabilities to automation partnering with the human. Highly automated systems tend to be incompatible with humans, leading to degradations in performance that may lead to serious problems in high-risk professional domains, such as the Navy and Urban Search and Rescue. This...

Using eye tracker data in air traffic control

Motivation/Research approach - An exploratory study was conducted to investigate whether eye movement metrics discriminate between different air traffic control tasks. Findings/Design - The results show the three tasks elicit different eye movement, as Yarbus (1967) also showed in static pictures, and that a number of eye tracking metrics...

Shared mental models of distributed human-robot teams for coordinated disaster responses

Shared Mental Models (SSM) are crucial for adequate coordination of activities and resource deployment in disaster responses. Both human and robot are actors in the construction of such models. Based on a situated Cognitive Engineering (sCE) methodology, we identified the needs, functions and evaluation paradigm for this model construction...

The influence of an activity awareness display on distributed multi-team systems

Motivation - Both multi-team systems and awareness displays have been studied more often in the past years, but there hasn't been much focus on the combination of these two subjects. Apart from doing so, we are particularly interested in the difficulties encountered when multi-team systems are distributed among different locations and how...

Eye movement as indicators of mental workload to trigger adaptive automation

This research describes an approach to objective assessment of mental workload, by analyzing differences in pupil diameter and several aspects of eye movement (fixation time, saccade distance, and saccade speed) under different levels of mental workload. In an experiment, these aspects were measured by an eye-tracking device to examine whether...

Distilling support opportunities to improve urban search and rescue missions

Current USAR missions are challenged by many factors leading to a study on how human computer interaction can provide support in this domain. Using data from a two-day observation in combination with mission reports, we applied a situated cognitive engineering design methodology to distill the operational demands, the human factors challenges,...

Combining adaptive automation and adaptive teams in a naval command centre

Motivation - Adaptive teams and adaptive automation promote a flexible work division between humans mutually and between humans and machine in order to overcome limitations in human information processing under highly variable workloads. We wanted to construct a framework that enables both system-supported adaptability in a team and adaptive...

Operator Load Assessment: Een evaluatie van de technische centrale van het LCF

De laatste twintig jaar hebben grote veranderingen gebracht in de informatietechnologie. Aan boord van marineschepen zorgt de steeds verdergaande automatisering voor een ingrijpende wijziging in de functie van de operator op de brug, in de commandocentrale en in de technische centrale.