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Descriptions of human-machine systems should reflect the user's perspective to be helpful for understanding her/his work-environment and for building up mental models needed for human-machine interaction (HMI). A conceptual framework for HMI is presented. It characterizes computer-supported work on three levels: on the first two levels in terms of co-operating roles played by human role players and in terms of functions which may be performed by persons or machines as actors. The dynamics are treated on a third level, called the action level.
A new set of closely related net interpretations for semi-formal, graphic system descriptions, called role/function/action-nets (RFA-nets), is introduced. They allow to express conceptual differences in a visual form, to vary the degree of detail on every level by providing proper abstraction mechanisms and to relate the conceptual levels by mixed graphic representations.
An example shows how RFA-nets can be applied in the early phases of co-operative systems development.
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Oberquelle, H. (1987). Human-machine interaction and role/function/action-nets. In: Brauer, W., Reisig, W., Rozenberg, G. (eds) Petri Nets: Applications and Relationships to Other Models of Concurrency. ACPN 1986. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 255. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-17906-2_25
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