man-machine
Adjective
Meaning
man-machine (not comparable)
Of a system: including both human and machine and/or their interface.
Examples
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.
The man-machine will crucify any conscious man who tries to help him; and convert his wisdom into an empty, mechanical dogma that suits his own understanding.
You can predict exactly what a machine will do if you have sufficient knowledge of it. A machine cannot go beyond the limitations of its design. The man-machine fears death because a machine cannot see beyond its own destruction.
HMIs are also referred to as man-machine interfaces (MMIs) and graphical user interfaces (GUIs).
“I also happen to have a slightly more humanistic view of the man-machine interface, and I think it’s not the dystopian view of jacking directly into the computer and completely becoming de-personalized,” Miner says.
The design philosophy of these computerised systems was that of a 'man-machine partnership'; while onboard computers performed much of the data sift and analysis processes, decisions and actions on the basis of that data remained in the operator's hands.