The Need for Machine Fitness Assessment: Enabling Joint Human-Machine Performance in Consumer Health Technologies. Issue 1 (September 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Rayo, Michael F.; Fitzgerald, Morgan C.; Gifford, Ryan C.; Morey, Dane A.; Reynolds, Morgan E.; D'Annolfo, Kassidy; Jefferies, Christine M.
• Is Part Of: Proceedings of the International Symposium of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare. Volume 9:Issue 1(2020)
• Page Start: 40
• Page End: 42
• Publication Date: 2020-09
• Subjects: Human engineering -- Periodicals; Medical care -- Periodicals; 620.8
• DOI: 10.1177/2327857920091041
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2327-8579

Abstract

We introduce the concept of machine fitness assessment, which is the process of correctly determining the degree of fit between a machine's inferences on a specific world and the world itself. We describe its importance in complex, high-stakes worlds, including healthcare, and how it will be critically important to realize the potential of consumer health technologies that promise institutional-quality health diagnosis and planning in decidedly non-institutional settings (e.g., our homes, offices, or anywhere else).