Pegasus Professor, Provost’s Distinguished Researcher
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Hancock, P. A. (2014). Automation: how much is too much?. Ergonomics, 57(3), 449-454.
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The headlong rush to automate continues apace. The dominant question still remains whether we can automate, not whether we should automate. However, it is this latter question that is featured and considered explicitly here.
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Hancock, G.M. & Hancock, P.A. (2014). Stress reactivity. In: R. C. Eklund & G. Tenenbaum (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Sport and Exercise Psychology. (pp. 722-724), Sage Publishing, Thousand Oaks, CA.
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Although ubiquitous in life, stress is rather difficult to define.
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Carayon, P., Hancock, P., Leveson, N., Noy, I., Sznelwar, L., & van Hootegem, G. (2015). Advancing a sociotechnical systems approach to workplace safety–developing the conceptual framework. Ergonomics, (ahead-of-print), 1-17.
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Traditional efforts to deal with enormous problems of workplace safety have proved insufficient, as they have tended to neglect the broader sociotechnical environment that surrounds workers.
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Hancock, P. A. (2013). Task partitioning effects in semi-automated human–machine system performance. Ergonomics, 56(9), 1387-1399.
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Twelve professional pilots performed a flight simulation consisting of three component sub-tasks: (i) tracking, (ii) monitoring and (iii) targeting, respectively. The targeting sub-task required (i) target identification, (ii) weapon selection and then (iii) weapon release.
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Szalma, J. L., & Hancock, P. A. (2013). A signal improvement to Signal Detection Analysis: Fuzzy SDT on the ROCs. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 39(6), 1741.
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Fuzzy Signal Detection Theory (FSDT) combines traditional Signal Detection Theory (SDT) with Fuzzy Set Theory to generalize signal detection analysis beyond the traditional categorical decision-making model.
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Oron-Gilad, T., Hancock, P. A., & Helmick-Rich, J. (2014). Coding warnings without interfering with dismounted soldiers’ missions. Applied Ergonomics, 45(5), 1343-1352. doi:10.1016/j.apergo.2013.08.011
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Objectives
Warnings are an effective way to communicate hazard, yet they can also increase task demand when presented to operators involved in real-world tasks.
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Mercado, J. E., White, T. L., Sanders, T., Wright, J., & Hancock, P. A. (2013). Performance Effects of Imperfect Cross-Modal Sensory Cueing in a Target Detection Simulation. The Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation: Applications, Methodology, Technology, 1548512913509908.
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Past research has shown that multi-modal sensory cues can reduce the workload of the user while simultaneously increasing performance capacity.
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Hancock, P.A. (2013). The making of a modern myth: Edward Leedskalnin and the Coral Castle. Skeptic Magazine, 18(1), 44-50
Excerpt
How quickly it is that “how can he do that?” becomes “he couldn’t possibly do that,” which then morphs into “a mysterious entity or force must have helped him do that.”
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Taylor, G. S., Reinerman-Jones, L. E., Szalma, J. L., Mouloua, M., & Hancock, P. A. (2013). What to Automate Addressing the Multidimensionality of Cognitive Resources Through System Design. Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making, 7(4), 311-329.
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The implementation of automation relies on the assumption that automation will reduce the operator’s cognitive demand and improve performance.
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Hancock, P. A., Jagacinski, R. J., Parasuraman, R., Wickens, C. D., Wilson, G. F., & Kaber, D. B. (2013). Human-Automation Interaction Research Past, Present, and Future. Ergonomics in Design: The Quarterly of Human Factors Applications, 21(2), 9-14.
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Scientific research accesses the past to predict the future.