An approach to predicting the usefulness of a decision aid

The authors summarize an approach to developing a quantitative model for predicting the performance impact of a decision aid. This approach emerged from research in team decision making. The approach predicts combined user/decision aid performance. The approach to developing a predictive performance model for a decision aid is to first to characterize a decision aid use strategy, and then to use this strategy to determine the function for predicting combined user/decision aid performance. Examples provide some simple illustrations of this approach