[IFETS-DISCUSSION:550] Re: IFETS-DISCUSSION digest 71

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Anne-Marie_Armstrong@res.raytheon.com
Date: Mon 30 Oct 2000 - 17:16:47 MET

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From: Anne-Marie_Armstrong@res.raytheon.com Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 11:16:47 -0500 Subject: [IFETS-DISCUSSION:550] Re: IFETS-DISCUSSION digest 71

Regarding: How do we" recognize what computers can and
cannot do effectively with or without human assistance"? The following table is
a human factors look at the allocation of tasks between humans and computers:
|------------------------------------------->
| |
| HUMAN CENTERED VIEW |
| |
|------------------------------------------->
>-----------------------------------|
  | |
  | MACHINE CENTERED VIEW |
  | |
>-----------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------->
| |
| PEOPLE |
| |
|------------------------------------------->
>-----------------------------------|
  | |
  | MACHINESPEOPLEMACHINES |
  | |
>-----------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------->
| |
| Creative |
| |
|------------------------------------------->
>-----------------------------------|
  | |
  | DumbVaguePrecise |
  | |
>-----------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------->
| |
| Compliant |
| |
|------------------------------------------->
>-----------------------------------|
  | |
  | RigidDisorganizedOrderly |
  | |
>-----------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------->
| |
| Attentive to change |
| |
|------------------------------------------->
>-----------------------------------|
  | |
  | Insensitive to |
  | changeDistractibleIndistractible |
  | |
>-----------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------->
| |
| Resourceful |
| |
|------------------------------------------->
>-----------------------------------|
  | |
  | UnimaginativeEmotionalUnemotional |
  | |
>-----------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------->
| |
| Decisions are flexible; based on |
| qualitative and quantitative assessment; |
| modified by special circumstances and |
| context. |
| |
|------------------------------------------->
>-----------------------------------|
  | |
  | Decisions are consistent; based |
  | upon quantitative evaluation of |
  | numerically specified, |
  | context-free |
  | variablesIllogicalLogical |
  | |
>-----------------------------------|

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