Synthetic Teammates as Team Players: Coordination of Human and Synthetic Teammates

Abstract

This project is part of a larger effort that focuses on human-automation coordination in the context of the development, integration, and validation of a computational cognitive model that acts as a full-fledged synthetic teammate on an otherwise all-human team. The team performs a small command-and-control task (i.e., team control of an Unmanned Aerial System; UAS). The research integrated the synthetic teammate model into the CERTT II (Cognitive Engineering Research on Team Tasks II) testbed in order to empirically address these research questions: 1) What is the nature of coordination and collaboration (within human or mixed human-synthetic teams) in command and control (C2) settings; 2) How well does the synthetic teammate function as part of a human-synthetic agent team; and 3) What do deficiencies in synthetic teammate interactions with human teammates reveal about human-automation coordination needs?

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 31, 2016
Accession Number
AD1017169

Entities

People

  • Mustafa Demir
  • Nancy J Cooke
  • Nathan McNeese

Organizations

  • Cognitive Engineering Research Institute

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Aircrafts
  • Applied Psychology
  • Behavioral Sciences
  • Cognition
  • Cognitive Science
  • Cognitive Systems Engineering
  • Cognitive Workload
  • Command And Control
  • Communication Channels
  • Control Systems
  • Engineering
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Human Systems Integration
  • Military Research
  • Psychology
  • Unmanned Aerial Systems

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - Human-Robot Interaction
  • Fully Networked C3