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As we saw in Section 1.5 humans and automation are living together and have to live together. The term human-minding automation is used to characterize the fact that humans are not regarded as components of automation systems in the same way as machines and computer programs. The humans and machines have to cooperate right from the beginning of the design phase and continue during the installation, operation, and maintenance phases. To assure that an automation system is human-minding, the following issues must be faced: Avoid and correct all the drawbacks that automation possesses for the human side. Use appropriate human-friendly interfaces. Use convenient decision aids. Take care that the human has a dominant role. Educate the human so as she/he understands how automation is working and what it does. Automation is still foreign to many humans.

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Tzafestas, S.G. (2010). Human-Minding Automation. In: Human and Nature Minding Automation. Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, vol 41. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3562-2_8

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