Anthony Broll
MVL graduate student
The Effect of Automation on Performance and Trust during a Mobile Search and Navigation Task
First responders and infantry must respond quickly to high tempo, variable scenarios. They must parse high volumes of information coming from team members, headquarters and their own senses in order to make quick and accurate decisions. Past studies of user-automation interactions have focused on supervisory control scenarios where the automation performs the task and the human steps into the system during emergencies. This study instead, looked at how automated devices may assist the human in a dynamic environment where the human must perform the action and has the ability to ignore the system. A tactical search and navigation task was performed to look at this human-computer scenario. Results include an evaluation of performance, situation awareness, and trust.