Developing and Validating a Synthetic Teammate

Abstract

The research was focused on the development of a synthetic teammate over the course of a year. The scientific and technical objectives were to develop and integrate computational accounts of macrocognitive processes identified as necessary for working as part of a team (e.g., language, task behavior, situation assessment/awareness, etc.). Each of the proposed project milestones have been achieved: 1) we integrated language comprehension, agent-environment interaction, and language generation components into a single system that behaves as a synthetic teammate; 2) we developed a situation component and integrated it with the synthetic teammate; 3) we continued to refine the synthetic teammate through test-develop-retest iterations; however, instead of adding humans as teammates we developed agents that were low in cognitive fidelity using systems of finite state machines that acted as the photographer and navigator.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 31, 2010
Accession Number
ADA514316

Entities

People

  • Christopher W. Myers
  • Nancy J Cooke

Organizations

  • Cognitive Engineering Research Institute

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Cognition
  • Cognitive Science
  • Cognitive Systems Engineering
  • Comprehension
  • Database Management Systems
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Environment
  • Language
  • Military Research
  • Navigators
  • Psychology
  • Relational Database Management Systems
  • Reliability
  • Text Messaging
  • Word Recognition

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