From Human Systems Integration to Human Systems Migration: First Sketch from the Automated Driving System Project MiRoVA

With the advancement of automation and artificial intelligence (AI), machines are gaining unprecedented autonomous capabilities. This progress presents a significant challenge in how to seamlessly integrate humans, machines, organizations, and the environment into meaningful sociotechnical systems. This process is called Human System Integration (HSI). A crucial issue of HSI is the scientific understanding of the change of these systems and especially how people, technology, organizations and the environment migrate through ever changing systems, and systems of systems. This gives rise to the concept of Human Systems Migration (HSM). It describes the dynamic process of humans and technologies changing together and adapting to each other in new system configurations. In this paper, we present Human Systems Migration in general at first, and illustrate this paradigm with the DFG-funded research group MiRoVA on vehicle automation, where we explore migration paths through different automation levels and shared/cooperative control concepts, and analyze the resulting processes of adaptation and cooperation. We view the migration challenge on various levels, including an interaction-based perspective, a technological, game theoretical, as well as micro and macro perspective. Our interdisciplinary approach provides a foundation for bridging theoretical models with design patterns and practical implementations, addressing critical questions of trust, safety, and societal acceptance of vehicle automation, and beyond of the migration of any sociotechnical system.