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Table 12.1: The Principles of the Fitts List
This principle is based on the assumption that the capabilities of people and machines
are reasonably static, with the work being divided accordingly. Rather than implicitly con-
sidering humans to be infinitely versatile machines, this approach aims to avoid putting
excessive demands on people.
Using the compensatory principle, we would determine that a machine is better suited
than a person to collecting monitoring data at 5-minute intervals from thousands of ma-
chines. Therefore we would automate monitoring. We also might determine that a person
cannot survive walking into a highly toxic nuclear accident site, but that properly designed
robots can.
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