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From Aeronautics to Space: Lessons in Human AutomationCivilian air flight continues on a growth curve, as more and more people utilize air travel to meet business and personal travel needs: This consumer-driven demand has resulted in the adoption of new methods to increase air system capacity and to make the air transportation system increasingly more efficient. As a consequence, civilian aviation, as an industry, has assumed a leading role in the use of automated systems, and, by implication, in the understanding of how human openers interact with these systems. Aeronautical automation systems serve a variety of roles. These include controlling aircraft and aiding, advising and monitoring numerous functions in the aircraft/airspace system. Experiences in the use of human/automation systems gathered from aviation are, in many cases, generalizable to other industries having similar requirements for human and non-human intelligent system interaction. However, the human/automation lessons learned from aviation have special relevance to the space application, where many of the same operational demands prevail. The application of aeronautical lessons of human-automated interaction to spaceflight is the subject of this paper. The discussion will address: the progress that has been made through aeronautically-based research and experience in understanding human/automation interaction, ways that this understanding can be applied to the needs of space, and the limits of our present understanding of human/automations systems. Suggestions will be offered related to human-automation research generally, and to the particular needs of the space endeavor.
Document ID
20020039477
Acquisition Source
Ames Research Center
Document Type
Preprint (Draft being sent to journal)
Authors
Connors, Mary M.
(NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA United States)
Rosekind, Mark R.
Date Acquired
August 20, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1996
Subject Category
Behavioral Sciences
Meeting Information
Meeting: AIAA/Space Programs and Technology
Location: Huntsville, AL
Country: United States
Start Date: September 24, 1996
End Date: September 26, 1996
Sponsors: American Inst. of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Funding Number(s)
PROJECT: RTOP 538-04-11
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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