Transitioning to Autonomy: The Psychology of Human Supervisory Control

Whenever automation is introduced to control real-time activities or processes, the role of the human changes from being a manual controller to being a supervisory controller.Whether the activity is the control of vehicles industrial processes, or is in defence, healthcare, or elsewhere, the work performed by the people who are expected to monitor and supervise the automation places new demands on their attention, perception and cognition.Those demands can be significant and challenging and this book aims to address that. Transitioning to Autonomy: The Psychology of Human Supervisory Control focuses on the transition period when automation is being introduced, and the human needs to learn and develop the competence to perform their new role effectively.The first Part extracts general lessons from the author’s experience taking ownership of a new car which, under certain circumstances, was capable of driving autonomously.Part 2 explores the psychology behind the lessons extracted in Par