A systematic treatment of supervision for use in function allocation

This paper presents IDA-S, a systematic framework for use in describing and defining relationships between a human operator and an (partially) automated system. The purpose of the framework is to support systems engineers, human-factors experts and other design stakeholders, in exploring alternative ways in which a function might be shared between a human and a machine. This paper discusses one particular aspect of IDA-S, namely the way that the framework describes supervisory arrangements for automated systems. Copyright((C)) 2001 IFAC.