Understanding Reliance and Trust in Decision Aids for UAV Target Identification

Abstract

The use of automation is prevalent in almost every aspect of modern life, and since its inception researchers have been investigating trust in automation. There are many methods of measuring trust. Given that trust means different things to different people and by nature is subjective, most methods are subjective survey assessments (Freedy, DeVisser, Weltman, & Coeyman, 2007; Jian, Bisantz, & Drury, 2000). Many studies have investigated how the reliability of an automated agent or the level of automation changes subjective trust in the automation (Dixon & Wickens, 2006; Du, Zhang, & Yang, 2018; Khasawneh, Rogers, Bertrand, Madathil, & Gramopadhye, 2019; Rogers, Khasawneh, Bertrand, & Madathil, 2017).