Information fusion in practice: A distributed cognition perspective on the active role of users

Nilsson, Maria; Laere, Joeri van; Susi, Tarja; Ziemke, Tom

doi:10.1016/j.inffus.2011.01.005

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“…The PSF aims to integrate the human user by treating her as a special type of sensor, one of many, but with certain privileges defined to dynamically account for variability in her performance as balanced against the consequence structure of the task. This approach is different than previous uses of psychophysiological methods to improve HAI, because the key here is human automation integration rather than mere interaction, an important point of discussion in the sensor fusion community [39].…”

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The importance of psychophysiological methods in identifying and mitigating degraded situation awareness

Drnec

Marathe

Metcalfe

et al. 2016

2016 IEEE International Multi-Disciplinary Conference on Cognitive Methods in Situation Awareness and Decision Support (CogSIMA

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Abstract-Herein we delineate the relationship between poor joint human automation interaction (HAI) system performance and situation awareness (SA) focusing on the effect of system design. Degraded SA is one reason that human users make poor interaction decisions that cause joint system performance to suffer. One key reason for degraded SA is the hierarchical design where the human user is at the apex of the command hierarchy. Within this structure the human user is not able to be fully integrated into the system, which can lead to 'out of the loop' performance issues. We propose that SA could be measured in real time by leveraging psychophysiological methods often used in cognitive neuroscience research. We then discuss a potential framework that could not only identify degraded SA in real time, but could mitigate these degradations. Such a framework would be successful because it would genuinely integrate the human user into the system, essentially closing the loop that underlies joint system failures.

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confidence: 99%

The importance of psychophysiological methods in identifying and mitigating degraded situation awareness

Drnec

Marathe

Metcalfe

et al. 2016

2016 IEEE International Multi-Disciplinary Conference on Cognitive Methods in Situation Awareness and Decision Support (CogSIMA

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“…Such detailed and abstract analyses can provide several suggestions how to change the design to improve user performance and, in the long run, the work practice (Rogers, 2012). Hence, DCog is not a 'quick and dirty' approach but consequently, the DCog approach has been used as a base for the construction of methods in areas such as the Resources model (Wright, Fields, & Harrison, 2000), DIB method (Galliers et al, 2007), CASADEMA (Nilsson, 2010;Nilsson, Laere, Susi, & Ziemke, 2012) and DiCoT (Blandford & Furniss, 2006). Although these methods have their foundation in DCog, to varying extent, they oversimplify and sometimes omit several central aspects of importance for a detailed DCog analysis (Sellberg & Lindblom, 2014).…”

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Manufacturing in the wild – viewing human-based assembly through the lens of distributed cognition

Lindblom

Thorvald

2017

Production & Manufacturing Research

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The interdisciplinary field of cognitive science has been and is becoming increasingly central within human factors and ergonomics (HF&E) and, since at the same time, there has long been a call for a more systems perspective in the area with a somewhat wider unit of analysis. This paper argues that the theoretical framework of distributed cognition would greatly benefit the application of HF&E to manufacturing and would offer a more holistic understanding of the interactions between different entities within a greater context, including the social, cultural and materialistic. We aim to characterize and analyse manufacturing as a complex socio-technical system from a distributed cognition perspective; focusing on the use, mediation and integration of different forms of representations, tools and artefacts in this domain. We present illustrative examples from authentic manual assembly, showing the cognitively distributed nature of the work, ranging from scaffolding strategies of the individual worker to the emergent properties of a whole assembly line. The paper further proposes and provides benefits of using a distributed cognition framework as a novel approach in the toolbox for the HF&E discipline, where it may have been found before, but the application to manufacturing has been absent.

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“…Indeed, a skilled DCog analyst has to be able to move between the different levels of analysis (Berndt et al 2014;Rogers 2012). Consequently, the DCog approach has been used as a base for the construction of methods in areas such as the resources model (Wright et al 2000), DIB method (Galliers et al 2007), CASADEMA (Nilsson et al 2012), and DiCoT (Blandford and Furniss 2005). Although these methods have their foundation in DCog, they sometimes oversimplify and omit several central aspects of importance for a detailed DCog analysis (Sellberg and Lindblom 2014).…”

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“…e.g. Blandford and Furniss 2005;Galliers et al 2007;Nilsson et al 2012). However, none of these attempts to structure the approach into a method relates to interruptions, and it has been pointed out that the methods often show either a high complexity or a simplified approach that does not support a proper DCog analysis (Sellberg and Lindblom 2014).…”

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Interruptions in the wild: portraying the handling of interruptions in manufacturing from a distributed cognition lens

2016

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This paper presents a study examining interruptions in the wild by portraying the handling of interruptions in manufacturing from a distributed cognition lens. By studying how interruptions occur and are handled in the daily activities of a work team at a large foundry for casting heavy diesel engines, we highlight situations when the propagation, transformation, and representation of information are not supported by prescribed work processes and propose recommendations for how this can be amended. The study was conducted by several visits to the aforementioned factory with cognitive ethnography as the basis for the data collection. The focus was on identifying interruptions and analysing these through a distributed cognition framework as an initial step towards studying interruptions in a manufacturing environment. The key findings include the identification of three, previously undefined, types of interruptions and the conclusion that interruptions do indeed affect the distributed workload of the socio-technical system and thus the overall production performance at the casting line.

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Information fusion in practice: A distributed cognition perspective on the active role of users

Cited by 35 publications

References 27 publications

The importance of psychophysiological methods in identifying and mitigating degraded situation awareness

The importance of psychophysiological methods in identifying and mitigating degraded situation awareness

Manufacturing in the wild – viewing human-based assembly through the lens of distributed cognition

Interruptions in the wild: portraying the handling of interruptions in manufacturing from a distributed cognition lens

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