Memory and Action Selection in Human-Machine Interaction

4Implication for Human–Machine Interaction: Autonomous System Interaction Design (ASID) based on NDHB-Model/RT

Traditional interactive systems transform input to the systems from the environment to output in the environment by using a set of rules. However, these systems are not intelligent enough to respond to an ever-changing environment including users. There are thus cases where inputs to a system may drift too far to be handled by the set of rules, and the system might respond inappropriately. This chapter discusses a new perspective on interactive system design. The key idea is to deal with interactive systems as autonomous systems that interact with users that are other autonomous systems, modeled by MHP/RT with MD memory frames, and designing interactive systems implies designing autonomous system interactions (ASIs) that establish natural cooperation among them.

4.1. Users modeled by MHP/RT with MD memory frames

In the previous chapters, we have described the entire model of users who interact with ever-changing environment and develop through the experience of moment-by-moment interactions. Figure 4.1 integrates the pieces to construct the entire complete model of human beings. It carries out the following processes in a cyclic way; perceive the external and internal environments, resonate memory by firing relevant portion of memory, synchronize fast and automatic unconscious process and slow and deliberate conscious process in four processing modes of MHP/RT and ...