Ironies of Automation is a research paper written by Lisanne Bainbridge and published in ''Automatica'' in 1983, and has been widely recognized as a pioneering statement of the problems inherent in
automation. Barry Strauch analyzes the paper's significance, observing that by November 2016 it had attracted 1800 citations, far beyond other influential works on the topic, and that "The number of citations of Bainbridge’s work, large as it is, is also increasing at a considerable rate." Retrospectives on "Ironies of Automation" and its significance have appeared in both
IEEE and
ACM
ACM or A.C.M. may refer to:
Aviation
* AGM-129 ACM, 1990–2012 USAF cruise missile
* Air chief marshal
* Air combat manoeuvring or dogfighting
* Air cycle machine
* Arica Airport (Colombia) (IATA: ACM), in Arica, Amazonas, Colombia
Computing
* ...
publications.
Author
Lisanne Bainbridge is a
cognitive psychologist, active in
human factors research between the late 1960s and 1998. She obtained a doctorate in 1972 for work on
process controllers and went on to author various research on
mental load, process operations, and related topics. She taught at
University of Reading and
University College London (See the references in Strauch for a partial bibliography, or her home page link below.)
Little is known of Bainbridge's biography or present whereabouts, nor are any images of her apparently extant.
See https://www.complexcognition.co.uk/p/home.html, including note on relation to Rasmussen's work.
References
External links
Ironies of Automation direct accessfor convenience; not paywalled and accessible as of 2021 Jun.
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