ABSTRACT
This chapter provides the working discussion of some common issues seen when transitioning to and working with unmanned systems. The goal of human factors is to provide operators and support personnel with the necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities and to achieve the overall goal of safe, effective, and efficient operations. The challenge in the field of human factors is to address these issues through awareness of human traits and limitations, training programs, proficiency and currency, teamwork skill development, and effective workstation design. On the surface, it appears that the goal of human factors training is simply to minimize or eliminate errors. The chapter focuses on human performance challenges and strategies to approach those challenges. The nature of human error involves a wide range of activities, from overall strategy and planning errors, to inadequate monitoring of information systems, to poor technical execution of a skill.
