Title: Automation in Human-Machine Networks: How Increasing Machine Agency Affects Human Agency,
Abstract: Efficient human-machine networks require productive interaction between human
and machine actors. In this study, we address how a strengthening of machine
agency, for example through increasing levels of automation, affect the human
actors of the networks. Findings from case studies within air traffic
management, crisis management, and crowd evacuation are presented, exemplifying
how automation may strengthen the agency of human actors in the network through
responsibility sharing and task allocation, and serve as a needed prerequisite
of innovation and change.