Cognitive management of complex, semi-automated systems

It is noted that technology has matured to the point that it should be possible to design automation in ways that support, complement, and extend the capabilities of human operators and, further, to do so in ways ensuring that the person-machine system as a whole can behave with more informational and procedural power, efficiency, and productivity than in early eras when the machine or the person was instead expected to act strictly in service of or response to the other. It is argued that the potential of such technology can be realized only as there is success in designing the overall machine in prope operational complement to the cognitive structure of its human user