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Research Questions
Research Scope
Isdefe
Consortium members:
CRIDA, DLR, NLR
How do different levels of automation in ATM impact human interaction? How does automation impact on roles and responsibilities in the different environments selected? What is required to promote the acceptance of high levels of automation in the ATM environment? The ADAHR project is about research into high levels of automation, up to and including full automation, and its impact on all possible actors. The project assesses the human factors aspects in the future operational environment where automation has reached a high level of implementation. To perform this assessment, the so called ‘Gaming’ ATM-innovative validation technique is applied. Gaming techniques are essentially human-in-the-loop activities. As an outcome of the Gaming Exercises scenarios a better definition of the different roles and responsibilities was delineated. Recommendations regarding transition problems and automation deployment were proposed.
Research Results
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The quantitative assessment performed by ADAHR provided results about the improvement of group performance to the detriment of individual performance when higher Levels of Automation (LoA) are introduced. The changed roles and responsibilities thus assisted the group to improve its performance, but not the individual. This assessment provided an interesting result about the influence of consciousness on individual performance when increasing LoA. In these timeframes, the personality trait and user acceptance contributed more to the individual performance than the group performance. The project experienced the benefits and the associated difficulties of the selected applications areas with higher LoA, through the involvement of operations experience from the various related domains.