Allocatin of functions in man-machine systems: a perspective and literature review

The effects of allocation of functions on the long-term performance of manufacturing cells?A case study

“…Contemporary research in the area of allocation of functions has focused on the complementary approach (in the human-centered system design strategy tradition) where functions are allocated to promote work that is intrinsically motivating (Chapanis, 1970;Drury, 1994;Grote, 1994, in press;Jordan, 1963;Mital et al, 1994;Price, Maisano, and Van Cott, 1982;Wei and Wieringa, 1994;Weik, 1993;Weik et al, 1994Weik et al, , 1995. The concept of allocating functions between people and machines has been discussed in the contexts of aerospace (Connolly and Willis, 1960;Fitts, 1951Fitts, , 1962Mertes and Jenny, 1974;Morrison, 1993;Mouloua, Parasuraman, and Molloy, 1993;Norman et al, 1989;Price, Smith, and Behan, 1964;Price and Tabachnick, 1968;Rouse and Cody, 1986), human-computer systems (Barfield and Salvendy, 1984;Edwards and Lees, 1974;Endsley, 1994;Greenstein and Lam, 1985;Lee and Moray, 1994;Licklider, 1960;Millot, 1985;Pawlowski, 1988;Reiger and Greenstein, 1982;Rencken and Durrant-Shyte, 1993;Rouse, 1977Rouse, , 1979, process control (Kisner and Frey, 1982;Pack, 1979;Pulliam et al, 1983;Swain and Guttman, 1980), inspection and surveillance systems (Bhatt and Sun, 1991;…”

The fiction of function allocation, revisited

“…This was true notwithstanding the fact that several methodological models had been developed and were avilable...'' (Price, Maisano & Van Cott, 1982) Since methods and requirements were already in place, this &&failure to allocate tasks appropriately'' was attributed to existing traditions and a lack of established procedures. The simpler notion that FA was a faulty concept (Jordan, 1963) was evidently not reconsidered.…”

Human factors engineering program review model

“…HWR-639: FAME -A Function Allocation Design Tool (Bye and Hoffman, 2001 ( Price, et al, 1982). (Pulliam et al, 1983).…”