HAL
Research in the Humans and Automation Lab (HAL) focuses on the multifaceted interactions of human and computer decision-making in complex sociotechnical systems. With the explosion of automated technology, the need for humans as supervisors of complex automatic control systems has replaced the need for humans in direct manual control.
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Recent Publications
B. Donmez, C. E. Nehme, M. L. Cummings, and P. de Jong, Modeling Situational Awareness in a Multiple Unmanned Vehicle Supervisory Control Discrete Event Simulation, Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making. (in review)
Donmez, B., Pina, P. E., & Cummings, M. L. Evaluation criteria for human-automation performance metrics, In Proceedings of the Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD, 2008.
Crandall, J.W. and Cummings, M.L., A Predictive Model for Human-Unmanned Vehicles Systems, (HAL2008-05), MIT Humans and Automation Laboratory, Cambridge, MA. (2008)
P.E. Pina, M. L. Cummings, J. W. Crandall and M. Della Penna. Identifying Generalizable Metric Classes to Evaluate Human-Robot Teams, Accepted, Metrics for Human-Robot Interaction Workshop at the 3rd Annual Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Amsterdam, The Nederlands, 2008.
Carrigan, G.P., Long, D., Cummings, M.L., Duffner, J. Human Factors Analysis of Predator B Crash, Proceedings of AUVSI 2008: Unmanned Systems North America, June 10-12, 2008, San Diego, CA, USA. (Accepted)
Scott, S.D., Wan, J., Sasangohar, F., Cummings, M.L. Mitigating Supervisory-level Interruptions in Mission Control Operations. In Proceedings of 2nd Int’l Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics, July 14-17, 2008, Las Vegas, NV.(Accepted)
Nehme, C.E., Kilgore, R.M., Cummings, M.L., Predicting the Impact of Heterogeneity on Unmanned-Vehicle Team Performance, Proceedings of HFES 2008: 52nd Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomic Society, September 22-26, 2008, New York, NY, USA. (Accepted)
Nehme, C. E., Crandall, J. W., Cumming, M. L., Using Discrete-Event Simulation to Model Situational Awareness of Unmanned-Vehicle Operators, Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center Capstone Conference, Norfolk, VA, 2008. (Accepted)
Pina, P., Donmez, B., Cummings, M.L., Selecting Metrics to Evaluate Human Supervisory Control Applications,( HAL2008-04), MIT Humans and Automation Laboratory, Cambridge, MA. (2008)
Donmez, B., Graham, H.D., Cummings, M.L., Assessing the Impact of Haptic Peripheral Displays for UAV Operators,( HAL2008-02), MIT Humans and Automation Laboratory, Cambridge, MA. (2008)
