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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Theor Issues Ergon Sci. 2013 Aug 7;15(6):545–577. doi: 10.1080/1463922X.2013.817625

Table 2.

Endsley and Kaber’s (1999) hierarchy of levels of automation applicable to dynamic-cognitive and psychomotor control task performance.

Roles
Level of automation Monitoring Generating Selecting Implementing
1)Manual control Human Human Human Human
2)Action support Human/Computer Human Human Human/Computer
3)Batch processing Human/Computer Human Human Computer
4)Shared control Human/Computer Human/Computer Human Human/Computer
5)Decision support Human/Computer Human/Computer Human Computer
6)Blended decision making Human/Computer Human/Computer Human/Computer Computer
7)Rigid system Human/Computer Computer Human Computer
8)Automated decision making Human/Computer Human/Computer Computer Computer
9)Supervisory control Human/Computer Computer Computer Computer
10) Full automation Computer Computer Computer Computer