Using Variable-Rate Alerting to Counter Boredom in Human Supervisory Control
A low task load, long duration experiment was conducted to evaluate the impact of cyclical attention switching strategies on operator performance in supervisory domains. The impetus for such a study stems from the lack of prior work to improve human-system performance in low task load supervisory do...
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| author | Cummings, M. L. Mkrtchyan, Armen Ashot Macbeth, Jamie C. Solovey, Erin S. Ryan, Jason Christopher |
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| description | A low task load, long duration experiment was conducted to evaluate the impact of cyclical attention switching strategies on operator performance in supervisory domains. The impetus for such a study stems from the lack of prior work to improve human-system performance in low task load supervisory domains through the use of design interventions. In this study, a design intervention in the form of auditory alerts is introduced and the effects of the alerts are examined. The test bed consists of a video game-like simulation environment, which allows a single operator the ability to supervise multiple unmanned vehicles. Each participant in the study completed two different four hour sessions, with and without the alerts. The results suggest that the alerts can be useful for operators who are distracted for a considerable amount of time, but that the alerts may not be appropriate for operators who are able to sustain directed attention for prolonged periods. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/817822022-09-26T11:20:31Z Using Variable-Rate Alerting to Counter Boredom in Human Supervisory Control Cummings, M. L. Mkrtchyan, Armen Ashot Macbeth, Jamie C. Solovey, Erin S. Ryan, Jason Christopher Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Humans and Automation Lab Mkrtchyan, Armen Ashot Macbeth, Jamie C. Solovey, Erin S. Ryan, Jason Christopher Cummings, M. L. A low task load, long duration experiment was conducted to evaluate the impact of cyclical attention switching strategies on operator performance in supervisory domains. The impetus for such a study stems from the lack of prior work to improve human-system performance in low task load supervisory domains through the use of design interventions. In this study, a design intervention in the form of auditory alerts is introduced and the effects of the alerts are examined. The test bed consists of a video game-like simulation environment, which allows a single operator the ability to supervise multiple unmanned vehicles. Each participant in the study completed two different four hour sessions, with and without the alerts. The results suggest that the alerts can be useful for operators who are distracted for a considerable amount of time, but that the alerts may not be appropriate for operators who are able to sustain directed attention for prolonged periods. United States. Office of Naval Research 2013-10-25T17:04:13Z 2013-10-25T17:04:13Z 2012-10 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 1541-9312 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81782 Mkrtchyan, A. A., J. C. Macbeth, E. T. Solovey, J. C. Ryan, and M. L. Cummings. “Using Variable-Rate Alerting to Counter Boredom in Human Supervisory Control.” Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 56, no. 1 (October 26, 2012): 1441-1445. en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1071181312561406 Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf Human Factors and Ergonomics Society MIT web domain |
| spellingShingle | Cummings, M. L. Mkrtchyan, Armen Ashot Macbeth, Jamie C. Solovey, Erin S. Ryan, Jason Christopher Using Variable-Rate Alerting to Counter Boredom in Human Supervisory Control |
| title | Using Variable-Rate Alerting to Counter Boredom in Human Supervisory Control |
| title_full | Using Variable-Rate Alerting to Counter Boredom in Human Supervisory Control |
| title_fullStr | Using Variable-Rate Alerting to Counter Boredom in Human Supervisory Control |
| title_full_unstemmed | Using Variable-Rate Alerting to Counter Boredom in Human Supervisory Control |
| title_short | Using Variable-Rate Alerting to Counter Boredom in Human Supervisory Control |
| title_sort | using variable rate alerting to counter boredom in human supervisory control |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81782 |
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