Information Fusion. 1 Human Performance and Data Fusion Based Decision Aids

Abstract – Decision-aids based on data fusion technologies may be applied to support decision-making in a variety of environments, ranging from military command and control situations to intelligent transportation applications. In any situation, the ultimate performance of human decision-maker/decision-aid system depends not only on the quality of the aid, but on the human decision-maker’s utilization of the information provided by the aid. This utilization can be affected by many factors, including the degree of trust the decision-maker has in the aid, and the form in which information is presented to the decision-maker. This paper describes a framework for investigating trust in data-fusion based decision aids, and results from a pilot experiment in which distorted and blended graphical forms were used to represent uncertain information