Human Factors The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society • Vol 64 • No 2
Judging One’s Own or Another Person’s Responsibility in Interactions With Automation
August 2020 • Nir Douer, Joachim Meyer
Objective We explore users’ and observers’ subjective assessments of human and automation capabilities and human causal responsibility for outcomes. Background In intelligent systems and advanced automation, human responsibility for outcomes becomes equivocal, as do subjective perceptions of responsibility. In particular, actors who actively work with a system may perceive responsibility differently from observers. Method In a laboratory experiment with pairs of participants, one participant (the “actor”) performe…