The Maintenance of Vigilance during Automated Monitoring

This paper is concerned with the maintenance of vigilance in modern, complex human-machine systems. It questions the applicability of models of the human operator derived from tradional studies of watchkeeping, since these assume a ‘passive’ attentional state. It argues instead for a model in which the operator actively regulates his cognitive state to adapt to changes in prevailing task and internal demands, through the adoption of strategies which permit a trade-off between energetical costs and performance benefits.

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