Developing a Multiple-EDT-Supervision Interface

With increasing automation beyond a professional level and into private and public life, one can assume that the ironies of automation explained by Bainbridge have been experienced by most of the members of our hybrid society – one where interaction between humans and embodied digital technology (EDT) becomes the agenda. In order to realise the full potential of hybrid teams we propose taking a new perspective, where EDTs do not operate on a fixed level of automation but become cognisant of their supervisor’s capabilities through a shared interface. This enables mutual perception and thus the dynamical adjustment between joint or autonomous activity.