Effects Of Automation Reliability And Trust On System Monitoring Performance In Simulated Flight Tasks

Abstract

The current study was designed to empirically examine the effects of trust and automation reliability on multi-tasking performance in a simulated cockpit setting using the Multi-Attribute Task Battery II (MATB-II). The MATB-II simulates tasks often performed by pilots in-flight, tasking the operator with attending to automated systems and correcting errors when they inevitably occur. Over the course of three 30-minute trials, two levels of automation reliability were presented in the current study (R50% and R90%). It was hypothesized that automation reliability and trust would affect both workload and performance in this multi-tasking environment. Results indicated that reliability significantly affected monitoring performance on the MATB-II. More reliable automation resulted in poorer monitoring performance, while trust appeared to have little impact. These results provide further evidence for how operators trust and interact with automation, a topic that is relevant to the implementation of automated systems in a variety of humanmachine systems such as aviation.

Publication Date

1-1-2018

Publication Title

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

Volume

2

Number of Pages

1232-1236

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1177/1541931218621283

Socpus ID

85072753304 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85072753304

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