Visualization Techniques for Transparent Human-Agent Interface Designs

Abstract

The report outlines various visualization techniques as the basis for enabling intelligent agent (software) transparency. We discuss visualizations as vehicles to capture the dynamics of the system being portrayed to give a human operator insight into the agents plans, logic, and expected outcomes (including uncertainties). Various techniques such as ecological interface designs, sensemaking, and storytelling are discussed with exemplars to indicate possible usages. General design principles are then explicated including principles for displaying uncertainty and are tied to a Situation-Awareness-based Agent Transparency (SAT) model. Techniques and their experimental results related to SAT projects are discussed to indicate the variety of SAT visualization solutions for diverse Department of Defense research programs.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2019
Accession Number
AD1069861

Entities

People

  • Jackie Cha
  • Jessie Y. Chen
  • Michael Barnes

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Cognitive Systems Engineering
  • Cognitive Workload
  • Command And Control
  • Control Systems
  • Data Displays
  • Department Of Defense
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Human Systems Integration
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Military Research
  • Psychology
  • Task Performance And Analysis
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Unmanned Vehicles
  • User Interface Engineering

Readers

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  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Systems Analysis and Design