ABSTRACT
The rapid development of failure management systems in modern aircraft has led to a general migration of cognitive functions away from human agents to electronic machine agents. A number of human factors phenomena associated with these developments have been, difficult to understand using conventional human engineering perspectives. Using a new framework which views systems as Distributed Information Resources, we compare two hypothetical failure management systems similar to those found in today’s commercial aircraft. The analysis reveals an under resourcing in some areas of electronic systems.
