What Level of Power Should We Give an Automation?

The level of automation in human-centered systems is steadily increasing, leading to a demand for advanced design methods for automation control at the human-machine interface. This is particularly important in safety-critical applications, where the multi-faceted interaction between the automated system and humans must be carefully analyzed to identify potential risks to the overall safety. This paper presents our vision of an approach determining an appropriate level of automation taking into account the automation’s impact on the human. The approach is based on a game theoretic framework where we investigate whether the automation’s controller can be synthesized as a strategy considering human behavior and thus ensuring human-adaptive control.