Adapting the Transparency of Autonomous Systems to Optimise Human-Autonomy Teaming in Command and Control (C2) Settings
Abstract
Technological advances in command and control (C2) platforms across aerospace, landand maritime settings mean that the modern war f ighter will increasingly work withautonomous systems (human-autonomy teaming). The operators role will become moresupervisory, re quiring them to monitor the environment and automated advice to managemission objectives (Endsley, 2017). While automation undoubte dly benefits systemperformance, contextual factors mean that automation has the potential to provideincorrect advice. This uncerta inty creates the possibility for the human operator to disuse ormisuse automation (Lee & See, 2004). Disuse refers to operators not actioning correct advice,whereas misuse refers to operators actioning incorrect advice. Also, operators may needsignificant time to verify advice, increasing decision time and mental workload to thepotential detriment to operational success. It has been recog nised that increasing thetransparency of automation has the potential to allow operators to more accurately andefficiently use aut omation by facilitating their understanding of the reasoning underlyingadvice (Bhaskara, Skinner, & Loft, 2019; Chen & Barnes, 2014 ; Lyons et al., 2017). Theformidable challenge ahead is to determine what type and amount of transparentinformation is optimal, an d how to present that information, in order to increase the accurateand timely use of automated advice in C2 settings.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Nov 16, 2021
- Source ID
- N629092212002
Entities
People
- Shayne Loft
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy
- University of Western Australia