Boredom and Distraction in Multiple Unmanned Vehicle Supervisory Control

This work was supported by Aurora Flight Sciences under the ONR Science of Autonomy program as well as the Office of Naval Research (ONR) under Code 34 and MURI [grant number N00014-08-C-070].

[1]  Guillaume Chanel,et al.  Boredom, engagement and anxiety as indicators for adaptation to difficulty in games , 2008, MindTrek '08.

[2]  R. Farmer,et al.  Boredom proneness--the development and correlates of a new scale. , 1986, Journal of personality assessment.

[3]  D M Tyler,et al.  Monitoring Performance with a Time-Shared Encoding Task , 1974, Perceptual and motor skills.

[4]  H J Jerison,et al.  The Elicited Observing Rate and Decision Processes in Vigilance1 , 1965, Human factors.

[5]  Joel S. Warm,et al.  Vigilance Requires Hard Mental Work and Is Stressful , 2008, Hum. Factors.

[6]  C. F. Bond,et al.  Social facilitation: a meta-analysis of 241 studies. , 1983, Psychological bulletin.

[7]  Matthew B. Weinger.  Vigilance, Boredom, and Sleepiness , 2004, Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing.

[8]  Mark W. Scerbo,et al.  Effects of Instruction Type and Boredom Proneness in Vigilance: Implications for Boredom and Workload , 1995, Hum. Factors.

[9]  Mary L. Cummings,et al.  Developing Operator Capacity Estimates for Supervisory Control of Autonomous Vehicles , 2007, Hum. Factors.

[10]  Richard I Thackray,et al.  Boredom and Monotony as a Consequence of Automation: A Consideration of the Evidence Relating Boredom and Monotony to Stress, , 1980 .

[11]  Tibor Vámos,et al.  Adapting automation to man, culture and society , 1983, Autom..

[12]  W. T. Nelson,et al.  Target Acquisition With UAVs: Vigilance Displays and Advanced Cuing Interfaces , 2005, Hum. Factors.

[13]  Jonathan P. How,et al.  Indoor Multi-Vehicle Flight Testbed for Fault Detection, Isolation, and Recovery , 2006 .

[14]  Janice Langan-Fox,et al.  Keeping the human in the loop: from ATCs to ATMs , 2008 .

[15]  J. O'hanlon,et al.  Boredom: practical consequences and a theory. , 1981, Acta psychologica.

[16]  Shigeru Haga,et al.  An experimental study of signal vigilance errors in train driving , 1984 .

[17]  Diana Schmidt.  A Queuing Analysis of the Air Traffic Controller''s Workload , 1978 .

[18]  R. L. Brune,et al.  Peer-review study of the draft handbook for human-reliability analysis with emphasis on nuclear-power-plant applications, NUREG/CR-1278 , 1983 .

[19]  E. Costello,et al.  Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary , 1966 .

[20]  Richard I. Thackray,et al.  Physiological, Subjective, and Performance Correlates of Reported Boredom and Monotony while Performing a Simulated Radar Control Task , 1975 .

[21]  Dirk Schaefer,et al.  Monotony in Air Traffic Control , 2007 .

[22]  J. D. Gould,et al.  The Effects of Divided Attention on Visual Monitoring of Multi-Channel Displays , 1967, Human factors.

[23]  Han-Lim Choi,et al.  Consensus-Based Decentralized Auctions for Robust Task Allocation , 2009, IEEE Transactions on Robotics.

[24]  Matthew B. Weinger,et al.  Anesthesia Equipment and Human Error , 1999, Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing.

[25]  Robert W. Proctor,et al.  Human factors in simple and complex systems , 1993 .

[26]  Lisanne Bainbridge,et al.  Ironies of automation , 1982, Autom..

[27]  R. Hockey.  Stress and fatigue in human performance , 1984 .

[28]  Richard I. Thackray,et al.  An Evaluation of the Effects of High Visual Taskload on the Separate Behaviors Involved in Complex Monitoring Performance , 1988 .

[29]  S. Steinmetz,et al.  Random House Webster's unabridged dictionary , 1997 .

[30]  Steven J. Kass,et al.  Watching the Clock: Boredom and Vigilance Performance , 2001, Perceptual and motor skills.

[31]  Christopher D. Wickens,et al.  A model for types and levels of human interaction with automation , 2000, IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern. Part A.

[32]  L. Prinzel,et al.  Task-Specific Sex Differences in Vigilance Performance: Subjective Workload and Boredom , 1997, Perceptual and motor skills.

[33]  Janice Langan-Fox,et al.  Human Factors Measurement for Future Air Traffic Control Systems , 2009, Hum. Factors.

[34]  J. Gregory Trafton,et al.  A preliminary system for recognizing boredom , 2009, 2009 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).

[35]  P Foran.  AWAKE AT THE SWITCH , 2000 .

[36]  Martin J Shipley,et al.  Bored to death? , 2010, International journal of epidemiology.

[37]  John D. Lee,et al.  Trust in Automation: Designing for Appropriate Reliance , 2004 .

[38]  I. Robertson,et al.  The absent mind: further investigations of sustained attention to response , 1999, Neuropsychologia.

[39]  Mary L. Cummings,et al.  The Role of Human-Automation Consensus in Multiple Unmanned Vehicle Scheduling , 2010, Hum. Factors.

[40]  Emilie M. Roth,et al.  Person-in-the-Loop Testing of a Digital Power Plant Control Room , 2010 .

[41]  G. Hockey.  Changes in operator efficiency as a function of environmental stress, fatigue, and circadian rhythms. , 1986 .

[42]  Arthur C. Graesser,et al.  Posture as a Predictor of Learner's Affective Engagement , 2007 .

[43]  M. Loeb,et al.  The Psychology of Vigilance , 1982 .

[44]  Albert J. Rehmann,et al.  Handbook of Human Performance Measures and Crew Requirements for Flightdeck Research. , 1995 .

[45]  J. S. Gray,et al.  Monotony and Boredom. , 1952 .

[46]  William T. Thompson,et al.  Effects of Shift Work and Sustained Operations: Operator Performance in Remotely Piloted Aircraft (OP-REPAIR) , 2006 .

[47]  Raja Parasuraman,et al.  Monitoring an Automated System for a Single Failure: Vigilance and Task Complexity Effects , 1996, Hum. Factors.

[48]  Joel S. Warm,et al.  Effects of Cueing and Knowledge of Results on Workload and Boredom in Sustained Attention , 1999, Hum. Factors.

[49]  S. Ebrahim,et al.  Rapid responses, population prevention and being bored to death. , 2010, International journal of epidemiology.

[50]  C W Fontaine,et al.  Effects of Familiarity of Music on Vigilant Performance , 1979, Perceptual and motor skills.

[51]  M. Scerbo.  What's so boring about vigilance? , 1998 .

[52]  John A. Stern,et al.  MAINTAINING VIGILANCE ON A SIMULATED ATC MONITORING TASK ACROSS REPEATED SESSIONS , 1994 .

[53]  J. Russell,et al.  The neurophysiological bases of emotion: An fMRI study of the affective circumplex using emotion‐denoting words , 2009, Human brain mapping.

[54]  David A. Sawin,et al.  The Effects of Subject-Controlled Pacing and Task Type on Sustained Attention and Subjective Workload , 1993 .

[55]  Clifford Nass,et al.  Cognitive control in media multitaskers , 2009, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

[56]  David A. Sawin,et al.  Vigilance: How to Do it and Who Should Do it , 1994 .

[57]  Judi E. See,et al.  Meta-analysis of the sensitivity decrement in vigilance. , 1995 .

[58]  V. Shackleton.  Boredom and Repetitive Work: A Review , 1981 .

[59]  R P Smith,et al.  Cisplatin and its analogues in the treatment of advanced breast cancer: a review. , 1992, British Journal of Cancer.

[60]  W. N. Dember,et al.  Sex differences in vigilance performance and perceived workload. , 1993, The Journal of general psychology.

[61]  R. I. Thackray.  The Stress of Boredom and Monotony: A Consideration of the Evidence , 1981, Psychosomatic medicine.

[62]  M. Colligan,et al.  Mass psychogenic illness in organizations: An overview , 1979 .

[63]  J. Gibson.  The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception , 1979 .

[64]  R I Thackray,et al.  Personality and physiological correlates of performance decrement on a monotonous task requiring sustained attention. , 1974, British journal of psychology.

[65]  E. Soetens,et al.  Psychophysiological investigation of vigilance decrement: Boredom or cognitive fatigue? , 2008, Physiology & Behavior.

[66]  Lawrence J. Prinzel,et al.  Examination of Automation-Induced Complacency and Individual Difference Variates , 2001 .

[67]  A. B. Hill,et al.  Towards a model of boredom. , 1985, British journal of psychology.

[68]  Ami B. Becker,et al.  Effects of feedback on Perceived Workload in Vigilance Performance , 1991 .

[69]  P J Geiwitz,et al.  Structure of boredom. , 1966, Journal of personality and social psychology.

[70]  Helen Lomax,et al.  Recording Social Life: Reflexivity and Video Methodology , 1998 .

[71]  Robyn M Highfill-McRoy,et al.  Factors associated with antisocial behavior in combat veterans. , 2010, Aggressive behavior.

[72]  A. D. Swain,et al.  Handbook of human-reliability analysis with emphasis on nuclear power plant applications. Final report , 1983 .

[73]  Cynthia D. Fisherl.  Boredom at Work: A Neglected Concept , 1993 .

[74]  Vera Zaychik,et al.  Inverting the Operator / Vehicle Ratio : Approaches to Next Generation UAV Command and Control , 2005 .

[75]  Birsen Donmez,et al.  Modeling Workload Impact in Multiple Unmanned Vehicle Supervisory Control , 2010, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part A: Systems and Humans.

[76]  K. Preston White,et al.  Systems engineering models of human-machine interaction , 1981, Proceedings of the IEEE.