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Showing 1 to 20 of 110 for “"automated systems"”.
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Situational Cueing for Trust Calibration in Automated Systems
… effects how the user should trust the automated system. Theory behind the presentation, design, and effectiveness of STCs is presented. STCs were experimentally validated in an in-person experiment with 64 participants to investigate the effectiveness of STCs in mitigating user …
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CULTURAL ROOTS OF TECHNOLOGY: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDY OF AUTOMATED SYSTEMS FROM THE ANTIQUITY TO THE RENAISSANCE
… is to outline the history of proto-cybernetic systems throughout antiquity, Middle Ages and Renaissance. After identifying what are considered the main characteristics of an automaton, we examine all technical, literary, historical available sources, in order to get the descriptions not only of …
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Configuration and control in social media systems
… but one that is increasingly curated by automated systems that aim to intelligently infer user intentions. This dissertation studies how users experience different mechanisms to configure and control these automated systems. Three sets of experiments, combining surveys, interviews, and …
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Consonant recognition by humans and machines
… of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems. Three traditional ASR parameterizations matched with Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) are compared to humans on a consonant recognition task using Consonant Vowel- Consonant (CVC) nonsense syllables degraded by highpass filtering, lowpass …
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Automazione ed autonomia nell'attività giuridica
This dissertation addresses the use of automated systems in private law, with a focus on the law of obligations. It addresses issues of artificial intelligence, autonomy, and the distinction between levels of automation, distinguishing between a mechanistic and an intentional approach. The research …
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An automated dynamic site layout planning system : a case study of Egypt
… effect on construction projects. Therefore, the automated systems can be considered as the most effective methods to develop an efficient site layout as they fully covered all concerns that cannot be taken into account by manual methods. Although, a lot of automated site layout planning systems …
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A Dynamic Workflow Framework for Mass Customization Using Web Service and Autonomous Agent Technologies
… of the key expenses associated with developing automated systems for mass customization. This paper presents a method for reducing the risk associated with this expense by developing a flexible environment for determining and executing dynamic workflow paths. Strategies for developing an …
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Clinical-view versus ELM: an investigation into image types in the context of skin lesion screening
… with predominantly white skinned populations. Automated tools have been proposed to help detect this most visible of cancers. Current automated systems for detecting melanoma analyse images of skin lesions for relevant image features, and classify the images based on those features. There are …
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Optimal Allocation of Building Cooling Loads to Chilled Water Plant Equipment
… changing demand for cooling, most buildings have automated systems that control the operation of the chilled water plant. The system that controls the chilling equipment selects the temperatures of the water streams and the speed of the cooling tower fans to meet the building loads. In a system …
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Development and Initial Evaluation of a Reinforced Cue Detection Model to Assess Situation Awareness in Commercial Aircraft Cockpits
… to the human operator. Over time, as avionics systems became more automated, pilots had less direct control over their aircraft. Much research exists in the literature about automation issues, and several major accidents over the last twenty years spurred interest about how to maintain the …
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Correlating Boredom Proneness With Automation Complacency in Modern Airline Pilots
… automation managers relegated to monitoring the automated systems. A possible consequence of this is increased levels of boredom in individual pilots due to the decreased involvement pilots have in the management of the flight. Automation technology has improved to where the aircraft’s flight …
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The Effects of Automation on Crew Coordination in the Corporate Cockpit
<p>The implementation of automated systems in the cockpit has somewhat changed pilots' working environment. The present study, which focus is on corporate aviation, looks at the influence automation has on crew coordination.</p> <p>A questionnaire including both Likert scale and open-ended …
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Flight-Deck Automation: The Attitudes and Perceptions of Selected Boeing 757/767 Air Carrier Pilots
… of cockpit crew members and the vast array of automated systems they control and monitor will contribute to the determination the effect this interface has on the performance of the cockpit team. This study utilized a questionnaire to determine if the opinions of the flight crew suggested …
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Supporting Coordination in Widely Distributed Cognitive Systems: The Role of Conflict Type, Time Pressure, Display Design, and Trust
… trust in air traffic control, and low trust in automated systems also contributed to poor detection performance. Based on a model of the cognitive processes involved in conflict detection, these findings are explained by the inability of pilots to generate expectations of system behavior to …
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Helping teams negotiate disruptions during task execution using distributed personal assistants
… adapt quickly to disruptions. Typically, automated systems resort to replanning when execution failures occur. However, replanning is too disruptive for human teams, and people often adapt to small failures by relaxing their requirements on the fly. By building upon Uhura, a personal …
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Design and development of an automated pinning machine for the surface mount electronics industry
… requirements, increase flexibility over current automated systems, and allow for greater part traceability. A brief history of industrial automation is presented to establish a background of the industry, followed by a more detailed look at robotic tooling. The design of the automated pinning …
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PATIENT CLASSIFICATION USING DEEP LEARNING
… natural language processing, and many other automated systems. This research came up with a method that makes use of a deep learning approach and found that it is indeed effective in classifying patients.
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The Effect of Active and Passive Control on Air Traffic Controller Dynamic Memory
… of this study was to investigate the effect of automated and passive control on air traffic controller dynamic memory. The study consisted of two experiments, each involving a realistic ATC scenario for radar approach control with a mix of arriving and departing traffic. In Experiment I, the …
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Software Systems for Automated Manufacturing of Engineered Organisms
… organisms at very large scales. Automation systems are often employed at these large scales to manage and execute laboratory operations. A current challenge in the field is how to automate organism engineering during the discovery phase of research when experimental failure rates are high …
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The transition from normal to emergency system states: An examination of variables that generate active learning among operators
… to take an active monitoring role in complex automated systems has resulted in operators who are unable to make a transition from normal scanning behavior to the detection, diagnosis, and correction of system failures during a malfunction. Passive monitoring is common when operators feel …
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