ICS (Interactive Critical System) team is a research group focusing activities around the design, construction and certification of dependable, usable and fault-tolerant interactive systems. In this context, ICS team at IRIT has been actively involved in automation-related research activities for many years with a specific focus on Operation-automation collaboration. In the field of ATM ICS group was a partner of SPAD (System Performance under Automation Degradation) WPE project, and is a member of the Higher Automation Level in ATM (HALA) research network of SESAR. This article provides an overview of the research activities on automation performed by ICS team.