eprintid: 13609 rev_number: 5 eprint_status: archive userid: 353 dir: disk0/00/01/36/09 datestamp: 2016-08-05 11:30:51 lastmod: 2021-08-27 17:41:27 status_changed: 2016-08-05 11:30:51 type: book_section metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 2 creators_name: Wahlström, B. creators_id: AL1351 title: Modeling of man-machine systems. A challenge for systems analysis ispublished: pub abstract: Recent industrial accidents have demonstrated the need for considering also human acts influencing the safety of industrial installations. An understanding of human errors will rely on an understanding of the cognitive mechanisms of the human decision maker. Different attempts have been made to build models of the human operator, but the models have mostly concentrated on single individuals and isolated tasks. The models developed are also rather descriptive and are not very useful in guiding the design of new systems. At present there are no models by which accurate predictions of the performance of a socio-technical system can be given. It is necessary to develope new modeling techniques, before it will be possible to model the human parts of the industrial installations to such a degree of accuracy that it is possible to give predictions on their safety. The paper discusses different modeling approaches and their shortcomings in providing guidance for the design of future systems. The paper also discusses some general requirements on the modeling methods of man-machine systems. date: 1990-08 date_type: published publisher: IFAC official_url: http://www.ifac-control.org/about/symposia-conferences-and-workshops creators_browse_id: 2495 full_text_status: none series: Proceedings of the 11th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control volume: 5 place_of_pub: Tallinn, USSR pagerange: 411-416 refereed: TRUE book_title: IFAC Symposia Series - Proceedings of a Triennial World Congress coversheets_dirty: FALSE fp7_project: no fp7_type: info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart citation: Wahlström, B. (1990). Modeling of man-machine systems. A challenge for systems analysis. In: IFAC Symposia Series - Proceedings of a Triennial World Congress. pp. 411-416 Tallinn, USSR: IFAC.