Designing the appropriate level of automation has always been difficult. Too much automation and the human operator may become cognitively disjoint from the task at hand. Too little automation and the operator may be overwhelmed by the task of translating higher level goals into lower level commands. This paper builds on research in the topic areas of human-centered design, levels of automation, and function allocation to provide a lexicon of metaphors and metrics to be used for setting context dependent interface points. This lexicon is explicated using examples from commercial aviation.
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