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HAL Reports

 

The HAL Reports are published by the MIT Humans and Automation Laboratory (HAL). The Lab's research focuses on the multifaceted interactions of human and computer decision-making in complex sociotechnical systems. With the explosion of automated technology, the need for humans as supervisors of complex automatic control systems has replaced the need for humans in direct manual control. For more information, please visit http://halab.mit.edu (opens a new tab or window).

Recent Submissions

  • Integrating Multiple Alarms & Driver Situation Awareness 
    Cummings, M. L.; Wang, Enlie; Ho, Angela W. L. (MIT Humans and Automation Laboratory, 2006)
    This study addresses this gap in CAS and intelligent alarm research by examining whether or not a single master alarm warning versus multiple warnings for the different collision warning systems conveys adequate information ...
  • Mitigation of Human Supervisory Control Wait Times through Automation Strategies 
    Mitchell, P. J.; Cummings, M. L.; Sheridan, T. B. (MIT Humans and Automation Laboratory, 2005)
    The application of network centric operations principles to human supervisory control (HSC) domains means that humans are increasingly being asked to manage multiple simultaneous HSC processes. However, increases in the ...
  • Conceptual Human-System Interface Design for a Lunar Access Vehicle 
    Smith, Cristin; Essama, Stephane; Duppen, Mark; Marquez, Jessica; Cummings, Mary; Wang, Enlie (MIT Humans and Automation Laboratory, 2005)
    In support of the vision for humans to establish a large scale, economically viable, permanent human settlement on the Moon within the next 25 years (Space Frontier Foundation, 2005), the next generation lunar landing ...
  • Decision Support Design for Workload Mitigation in Human Supervisory Control of Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles 
    Brzezinski, A. S.; Cummings, M. L. (MIT Humans and Automation Laboratory, 2006)
    As UAVs become increasingly autonomous, the multiple personnel currently required to operate a single UAV may eventually be superseded by a single operator concurrently managing multiple UAVs. Instead of lower-level tasks ...
  • An Analysis of Information Complexity in Air Traffic Control Human Machine Interaction 
    Tsonis, C. G. (HAL Humans and Automation Laboratory, 2006)
    This thesis proposes, develops and validates a methodology to quantify the complexity of air traffic control (ATC) human-machine interaction (HMI). Within this context, complexity is defined as the minimum amount of ...
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