Conceptual Frameworks to Guide Design

This is a response providing some thoughts triggered by the paper “Issues in Human–Automation Interaction Modeling: Presumptive Aspects of Frameworks of Types and Levels of Automation,” by David Kaber. The key theme is that in order to debate the relative merits of different conceptual frameworks to guide human–automation interaction design efforts, we need a richer understanding of the psychology of design. We need to better understand how contributions by the field of cognitive engineering really affect the efforts of system designers