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The division of labor between human and computer in the presence of decision support system advice
Accepted 1 October 2001. ;
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Abstract
Prior research suggests that decision support system (DSS) provide model advice and display non-modeled information for decision makers [4,13]. We investigate whether decision makers (1) delegate the processing of the modeled information to the model, (2) cognitively process the non-modeled information, and (3) decide based on the model's advice adjusted for the non-modeled information. Experimentally, decision makers were no more likely to execute normative strategies when they had requisite knowledge for the strategy than when they did not have the requisite knowledge. We observed alternative processing, including ignoring the advice altogether, and evaluating the advice. Our findings suggest that DSS builders must encourage decision strategies that capitalize on the relative strengths of human and computer in using those features.
Author Keywords: Decision strategies; Decision model reliance; DSS development; Human/computer interaction
Article Outline
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The divide-and-conquer strategy and alternatives
- 2.1. Advice and non-modeled information
- 2.2. The divide-and-conquer strategy and alternatives
- 2.3. Alternatives to the divide-and-conquer strategy
- 3. Method
- 4. Results
- 4.1. Ignoring the advice
- 4.2. Lack of tendency to divide-and-conquer
- 4.3. Evidence of evaluating the advice
- 4.4. Influence of advice and non-modeled attributes
- 5. Discussion
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Vitae







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