Misuse and Disuse of Automated AIDS

Abstract

A general model of automation use, which proposes that cognitive, social, and motivational processes may lead to productivity loss of human-computer teams is briefly described and data from four experiments testing aspects of the model are presented. Automation use is determined, in part, by the perceived utility of the aid, which is the outcome of a comparison process between the human operator's ability and the reliability of the aid. Perceived utility, however, is affected by a bias towards automation and by self-serving biases.