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Effect of descriptive information and experience on automation reliance.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  21830510     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Process    
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OBJECTIVE: The present research addresses the issue of reliance on decision support systems for the long-term (DSSLT), which help users develop decision-making strategies and long-term planning. It is argued that providing information about a system's future performance in an experiential manner, as compared with a descriptive manner, encourages users to increase their reliance level.
BACKGROUND: Establishing appropriate reliance on DSSLT is contingent on the system developer's ability to provide users with information about the system's future performance.
METHOD: A sequence of three studies contrasts the effect on automation reliance of providing descriptive information versus experience for DSSLT with two different positive expected values of recommendations.
RESULTS: Study I demonstrated that when automation reliance was determined solely on the basis of description, it was relatively low, but it increased significantly when a decision was made after experience with 50 training simulations. Participants were able to learn to increase their automation reliance levels when they encountered the same type of recommendation again. Study 2 showed that the absence of preliminary descriptive information did not affect the automation reliance levels obtained after experience. Study 3 demonstrated that participants were able to generalize their learning about increasing reliance levels to new recommendations.
CONCLUSION: Using experience rather than description to give users information about future performance in DSSLT can help increase automation reliance levels.
APPLICATIONS: Implications for designing DSSLT and decision support systems in general are discussed.
Authors:
Nirit Yuviler-Gavish; Daniel Gopher
Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Human factors     Volume:  53     ISSN:  0018-7208     ISO Abbreviation:  Hum Factors     Publication Date:  2011 Jun 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-08-11     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  0374660     Medline TA:  Hum Factors     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  230-44     Citation Subset:  IM; S    
Affiliation:
Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel. niritg@tx.technion.ac.il
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