Intensive Program
– Cyprus 2008
Bernd O. Stottok, stottok@t-online.de
Abstract
This research work deals with the interaction of the human-computer team in the railway sector with focus on the telematics systems that are implemented on trains and locomotives. Technology cannot be considered in isolation from the people who use or adapt it. Automation and people have to coordinate as a joint system, a single team. Therefore, automated systems have to be designed to act as a team player. A number of requirements and challenges which have been defined in literature have to be met to give a railway telematics system the status of a team player in the human-computer team.
Examples of improvement to the human-automation team that have been studied for aviation and naval applications will be considered. The results from this study will give guidance how to develop railway telematics systems into better team players in the human-computer interaction team.
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