Humans and Automation: Use, Misuse, Disuse, Abuse

Synopsis

Foundational taxonomy distinguishing use, misuse (overreliance, monitoring failures), disuse (underuse from false alarms), and abuse of automation — the conceptual anchor for later trust-calibration and deskilling work.

Keywords

·automation ·misuse ·disuse ·abuse ·foundational ·taxonomy

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