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Chapter and Conference Paper
Is It My Looks? Or Something I Said? The Impact of Explanations, Embodiment, and Expectations on Trust and Performance in Human-Robot Teams
Trust is critical to the success of human-robot interaction. Research has shown that people will more accurately trust a robot if they have an accurate understanding of its decision-making process. The Partial...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Human-Agent Teaming for Effective Multirobot Management: Effects of Agent Transparency
The U.S. Army Research Laboratory is engaged in a multi-year program focusing on the human role in supervising autonomous vehicles. We discuss this research with regard to patterns of human/intelligent agent (...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Effect of Agent Reasoning Transparency on Automation Bias: An Analysis of Response Performance
We examined how the transparency of an agent’s reasoning affected the human operator’s complacent behavior in a military route selection task. Participants guided a three-vehicle convoy through a simulated env...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Effects of Individual Differences on Human-Agent Teaming for Multi-robot Control
In the current experiment, we simulated a military multitasking environment and evaluated the effects of RoboLeader on the performance of human operators (i.e., vehicle commanders) who had the responsibility o...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Overview of Humans and Autonomy for Military Environments: Safety, Types of Autonomy, Agents, and User Interfaces
The objective of this review is to extract design implications from multiyear US Army sponsored research investigating humans and autonomy. The programs covered diverse research paradigms: (a) effects of auton...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Designing Effective Soldier-Robot Teams in Complex Environments: Training, Interfaces, and Individual Differences
Extensive US Army programs are being pursued to increase the effectiveness of unmanned vehicles for diverse missions during future combat. The following paper identified 23 human-robot interaction (HRI) guidel...