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or gestures, can aect human operators’ perceptions and appropriate
use of the aid (Parasuraman and Miller 2004). Dzindolet, Peterson,
Pomranky, Pierce, and Beck (2003) set out to determine the initial
expectations people had of an automated decision aid. eir experi-
ments are described below.
7.4.2.1 Experiment 1: Initial Impressions of an Automated Aid
Purpose: Dzindolet et al. (2003) performed a study to determine the
expectations human operators had regarding a hypothetical automated
decision aid about which they had extremely limited information.
Method: Fifteen Cameron University students were told they
would view ...