Human-agent teaming for robot management in multitasking environments
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Jessie Y.C. Chen, Stephanie Quinn, Julia Wright, Daniel Barber, David Adams, Michael BarnesAuthors Info & Claims
Jessie Y.C. Chen, Stephanie Quinn, Julia Wright, Daniel Barber, David Adams, Michael BarnesAuthors Info & ClaimsPages 103 - 104
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In the current experiment, we simulated a multitasking environment and evaluated the effects of an intelligent agent, RoboLeader, on the performance of human operators who had the responsibility of managing the plans/routes for three vehicles (their own manned ground vehicle, an aerial robotic vehicle, and a ground robotic vehicle) while maintaining proper awareness of their immediate environment (i.e., threat detection). Results showed that RoboLeader's level of autonomy had a significant impact on participants' concurrent target detection task. Participants detected more targets in the Semi-Auto and Full-Auto conditions than in the Manual condition. Participants reported significantly higher workload in the Manual condition than in the two RoboLeader conditions (Semi-Auto and Full-Auto). Operator spatial ability also had a significant impact on target detection and situation awareness performance measures.
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ISBN:9781467330558
- General Chairs:
- Hideaki Kuzuoka,
- Vanessa Evers,
- Program Chairs:
- Michita Imai,
- Jodi Forlizzi
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- SIGAI: ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence
- RA: IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
- SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction
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- AAAI: American Association for Artificial Intelligence
- Human Factors & Ergonomics Soc: Human Factors & Ergonomics Soc
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