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April 8, 2012 12:36 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/QSaq-U-lTJo/when-human-beings-are-asked-to.html
When human beings are asked to monitor computers, disaster ensues
Ashwin Parameswaran's "People Make Poor Monitors for Computers" is a fascinating look at (and indictment of) the way we design automation systems with human fallbacks. Our highly automated, highly reliable systems -- the avionics in planes, for example -- are designed with to respond well to all the circumstances the designers can imagine, and use [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/QSaq-U-lTJo/when-human-beings-are-asked-to.html
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