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Beyond Compliance and Control: Human Trust, Mental Models, and Cognitive Adaptation from Automated to AI-Augmented Work

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Special Issue Editor(s)

Angelika C. Bullinger-Hoffmann, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
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Marco De Angelis, University of Bologna, Italy
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Felix Siebert, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark
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Beyond Compliance and Control: Human Trust, Mental Models, and Cognitive Adaptation from Automated to AI-Augmented Work

This special issue is connected to the Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Europe Chapter (HFESec), held 22-24 April 2026 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Conference website: https://www.hfes-europe.org/annual-meeting/

The issue is open beyond conference contributors and welcomes submissions from the wider research community aligned with the scope of the call.

High level subject areas:

Human factors and ergonomics; Cognitive ergonomics; Human-automation interaction; Sociotechnical systems; Mobility and transport; Industrial human factors; Human-AI interaction

Medium level subject areas:

Cognitive ergonomics: trust calibration and reliance in automation, mental models of automated and AI systems, situation awareness in human–machine systems. mental workload in AI-assisted tasks, decision-making under automation and AI support, levels of automation and function allocation

Organisational ergonomics: human–AI teaming and team composition, information inquiry and communication in human–AI decision-making, technology acceptance of automated and AI systems, algorithmic management and worker agency

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