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Little or no direct experimental work exists on the role of attention in error detection and diagnosis. Therefore, this paper draws on well established approaches to the understanding of human information processing to suggest the direction in which may lie a model of the way the need to pay attention to many sources of information, and to the information received from those sources, gives rise to difficulties for the human operator in monitoring large automatic and semiautomatic systems.
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Moray, N. (1981). The Role of Attention in the Detection of Errors and the Diagnosis of Failures in Man-Machine Systems. In: Rasmussen, J., Rouse, W.B. (eds) Human Detection and Diagnosis of System Failures. NATO Conference Series, vol 15. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9230-3_13
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