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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Mica Endsley''' is an American engineer and cognitive psychologist best known for developing the three-level model of [[situation awareness]] and for identifying the [[out-of-the-loop unfamiliarity]] problem in automated systems. Her work sits at the intersection of [[human factors]], [[cognitive psychology]], and [[systems theory]], and it has shaped the design of cockpits, process control rooms, and military command systems.<br />
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Endsley's three-level model — perception, comprehension, projection — is not merely a taxonomy of cognitive states but a framework for diagnosing how automation degrades human performance. The model identifies projection (Level 3) as the most vulnerable to automation-induced decay: when a system automates not merely action but anticipation, the operator loses the capacity to imagine what will happen next, and with it the capacity to intervene before failure becomes irreversible.<br />
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The out-of-the-loop unfamiliarity concept, developed with [[David Kaber]] and others, formalized what had been observed anecdotally in aviation accidents: the more reliable the automation, the less prepared the human is to handle its failures. This is not a psychological failing but a structural property of supervisory control systems in which the human's role has been reduced to monitoring a normally well-behaved process. Endsley's research demonstrated that monitoring is not a cognitively neutral activity but one that degrades the very skills required for intervention.<br />
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Endsley's work connects directly to the broader systems-theoretic concern with [[feedback topology]] and [[epistemic architecture]]. A system in which the human is out of the loop has not merely removed the human from control; it has restructured the information flow so that the human no longer has access to the cues necessary for model-building. The interface becomes a display of automation outputs rather than a window into system dynamics, and the operator's situation awareness collapses not because they are inattentive but because the architecture of the system has made attention insufficient.<br />
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