Modeling the Human-Machine Interaction: Relations between Human Planning, Cognition, Mental Representation and Action using a Situation-Operator Scheme

Hybrid Systems and AI: Modeling Analysis and Control of Discrete Plus Continuous Systems

Volume

Papers from the 1999 AAAI Spring Symposium

Contents

Core of the work is an engineering oriented modeling approach of human cognition and of interaction using a specified situation-operator (SO) scheme. The strong relation between human interaction and mental models can be shown as well as the connection to related mental representations. The SO-scheme allows modeling of differend kinds of systems resp. modeling approaches, e.g. hybrid systems. The SO-scheme gives the framework modeling human activities and related mental activities including mental representations of models. The ability of the approach is demonstrated analyzing the crew-communication of the Birgenair aircraft accident.