This course takes both a practical and theoretical approach to introduce the principles, methods and tools for automation. Examples are taken from industries that have been embedding automation in their systems for a long time (such as aviation, automotive, satellite ground segments …), but the main focus is on designing and assessing automation for interactive systems. Interactive hands-on exercise of how to "do it right", will be provided answering questions such as: How to add automation in interaction techniques to improve efficiency? How to migrate tasks towards automation to improve effectiveness? How to design usable automation at system, application and interaction levels? Is more automation always better? If not, when do we stop automating? And more....