The appearance of a whole number of “Human Factors” dedicated to Automation bears witness to the importance of this topic. Not merely are we designing increasingly complex systems, but we are asking that they be operated by crews with fewer and fewer people The introduction of automation, robotics and artificial intelligence will, it is assumed, make for more efficiency. But our knowledge of the human factors of these systems is primitive. This session it is hoped will act as a focus for interest in such topics.
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