Design and Evaluation of Path Planning Decision Support for Planetary Surface Exploration

Human intent is an integral part of real-time path planning and re-planning, thus any decision aiding system must support human-automation interaction. The appropriate balance between humans and automation for this task has previously not been adequately studied. In order to better understand task allocation and collaboration between humans and automation for geospatial path problem solving, a prototype path planning aid was developed and tested. The focus was human planetary surface exploration, a high risk, time-critical domain, but the scenario is representative of any domain where humans path plan across uncertain terrain. Three visualizations, including elevation contour maps, a novel visualization called levels of equal costs, and a combination of the two were tested along with two levels of automation. When participants received the lower level of automation assistance, their path costs errors were less than 35% of the optimal, and they integrated manual sensitivity analysis strategies. When participants used the higher level of automation assistance, path costs errors were reduced to a few percentages, and they saved on average 1.5 minutes in the task. However, this increased performance came at the price of decreased situation awareness and automation bias.We would like to acknowledge the NASA Harriett G. Jenkins Predoctoral Fellowship and the Office of Naval Research for sponsoring this research

DELPHI Collaboration DELPHI 2001- 065 CONF 493

Inclusive spectra and infrared and collinear safe event shape distributions are determined from the data taken in 2000 at centre of mass energies between 200 GeV and 208 GeV . From the event shapes, the strong coupling ff s is extracted in O(ff and in NLLA. Comparing these measurements to those obtained at and around M Z and other LEP2 data, the energy dependency (running) of ff s is accessible

The Extensive Air Shower Experiment

The extensive air shower (EAS) experiment KASCADE has started its operation at the laboratory site of the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, at 49 N, 8 E, 110 m above sea level