THE SPREAD OF TRUST AND DISTRUST IN DISTRIBUTED HUMAN-AUTONOMY TEAMING CONSTELLATIONS
Abstract
Through the use of three mixed-methods studies, the proposed research will create a foundational understanding of how the perceptions of trust formed by a teammate based on their interactions with an autonomous teammate may be influence by the expressed perceptions of another teammate or team, which this research defines as the spread of trust. After observing and quantifying this phenomenon in a single human-autonomy team, the proposed research will expand its research initiative to understand the spread of trust between human-autonomy teams who work together in a larger organization. Finally, this research will extend the foundational understanding of the spread of trust within and between human-autonomy teams to the real-world practice of trust repair to accelerate and decelerate the spread of trust and distrust, respectively. Additionally, a parallel research effort will exist to synthesize the understanding gained of the spread of trust into a single quantitative tool that can be implemented in real-world teams to identify and quantify the spread of trust. This metric s development will be driven by the experimental and qualitative data. The contributions and understanding achieved by the proposed research provide a significant advancement in society s understanding of how to properly design human-centered, human-autonomy teams that have the potential to meet, if not exceed, the performance of human-only teams. As research in human-autonomy teaming in the scientific and applied domains continues to advance, so too will society s reliance on human-autonomy teaming, which means the proposed research s contributions will only become more important in the coming years. Providing these contributions as early as possible ensures costly errors for human-autonomy teams in the DoD and other domains can be prevented and accounted for to ensure accurate, safe, and cost-effective human-autonomy teaming.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Mar 07, 2023
- Source ID
- FA95502110314
Entities
People
- Nathan McNeese
Organizations
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- Clemson University
- United States Air Force