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SUMMARY:Human Supervisory Control Issues in Complex\, Time-critical System
 s - Professor Mary (Missy) Cummings\, Director Humans & Automation Laborat
 ory\, MIT
DTSTART:20060720T131500Z
DTEND:20060720T140000Z
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CONTACT:Lorisa Dubuc
DESCRIPTION:With the explosion of automated technology\, the need for huma
 ns as supervisors of complex automatic control systems has replaced the ne
 ed for humans in direct manual control.  A consequence of complex\, highly
  automated domains in which the human decision-maker is more on-the-loop t
 han in-the-loop is that the level of required cognition has moved from tha
 t of well-rehearsed skill execution and rule following to higher\, more ab
 stract levels of knowledge synthesis\, judgment\, and reasoning. Employing
  human-centered design principles to human supervisory control problems\, 
 and identifying ways in which humans and computers can leverage the streng
 ths of the other to achieve superior decisions together is the central foc
 us of the MIT Humans and Automation Laboratory (HAL). Dr Mary (Missy) Cumm
 ings\, the Director of HAL\, will give an overview of the current research
  in HAL\, and will present results from recent human-in-the-loop experimen
 ts focusing on the supervisory control of multiple unmanned aerial vehicle
 s.\n
LOCATION:Rainbow Room\, Computer Laboratory
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