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2026-10 update · 2026-10-04

Shelves opened

• Human-Automation Interaction · COLLECTION № 01 · 11 volumes
• Personal Knowledge Management · COLLECTION № 02 · 12 volumes

1 correction this month; see the correction record.

14 new links in the knowledge graph.

Next opening 2026-11-01: Diffusion & Networks · Situations & Heuristics · Growth Analytics; members can read from 2026-10-25.

Corrections

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• 2026-10-10 · “Memex” · The page said associative indexing replaces library-style hierarchical indexing. Section 6 of the original says the memex still allows the record to be consulted by the usual scheme of indexing; associative indexing is a further way of retrieval added alongside it. The page now says associative trails supply routes that hierarchical indexing cannot, and the body points to the passage.
• 2026-10-07 · “Automation complacency and bias” · The page said that complacency and bias are one attentional mechanism. A cross-model review against the paper found that, taken as a whole, the two are overlapping and similar phenomena; the integration model covers only the part of bias tied to inattention and selective attention, and the claim of essentially the same attentional processes holds only for that part. The wording was changed to overlapping phenomena with attention at their core, and the model's coverage was added to the text.
• 2026-10-07 · “Automation complacency and bias” · The page listed a mandatory verification step, a sampling mechanism and a varying check rhythm as effective interventions. None of these is among the mitigations the paper lists, which are accountability, flexible function allocation, practical experience with the automated system, and support that analyses information rather than recommending a decision. The sentence now gives the paper's four.
• 2026-09-27 · “Adaptive automation” · The page said that Kaber and Endsley 2004 showed the effect of adaptive switching varying with the switching cycle, and that badly timed switching adds coordination cost. Against Table 3 and the conclusion of the full text: the switching cycle had no significant main effect on any of the three levels of situation awareness, and adaptive switching mainly affected subjective workload and secondary task performance, with little effect on primary task performance or situation awareness; nothing in the paper supports the coordination cost sentence. The result sentence was rewritten, the coordination cost sentence removed, and a note added that the study switched on a predefined schedule.