Ironies of automation¶
Bainbridge, L. (1983). Ironies of automation.
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Mechanisms¶
- Manual Continuity Workaround
- … that exists only on paper: an un-rehearsed manual procedure collapses under the stress of a real outage, because the skill to run the fallback has atrophied while everyone leaned on the automation — the irony that the more capable the automation, the less practiced the humans who must take over when it quits.
This sourceIt is the sharpest statement of why an un-rehearsed manual workaround fails under real conditions, and why the rehearsal-cadence dial is the load-bearing one here.
- … that exists only on paper: an un-rehearsed manual procedure collapses under the stress of a real outage, because the skill to run the fallback has atrophied while everyone leaned on the automation — the irony that the more capable the automation, the less practiced the humans who must take over when it quits.
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