Man-Machine Cooperation

Abstract

Nowadays, in dynamic s¡tuations where human oPerators do not fully control the course of events, they are confronted with almost autonomous mach¡nes (automation) acting within the same workspace. This state of affairs actually oPens the need for an extension of a human-human interaction viewpo¡nt to a human-machine cooPeration framework' Each human or artific¡al agent's task can interfere with the others' tasks' so the machine- or human-centered system desiSn viewpoints should be extended to a human-machine system centered design perspect¡ve' where functions are allocated and the¡r interference managed in order to perform the overall task of the system. This chapter stresses the need for this extension in order to identify human-machine cooperation act¡vit¡es and to consider the imPlications of function allocat¡on on human-mach¡ne cooperation, beyond the level of automation framework.