Rapid developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) are bringing increasingly complex autonomy capabilities to the cockpit. Autonomous electric Vertical Take Off and Landing, swarms, Collaborative Combat Aircraft, and other new aviation mission constructs are on the horizon. In the last few decades, military and civil aviation have achieved remarkable safety and effectiveness thanks to automation and […]
Prof. Feigh Participates in NASA’s Imagin Aviation Workshop
Prof. Karen Feigh participated in the Imagin Aviation Workshop Panel that discussed Advanced Air Mobility: Moving Through the Tech and Innovation Lifecycle. The outlook for aviation is looking decidedly futuristic with capabilities like eVTOL air taxis, autonomous regional transport, and drone delivery already on the horizon. Advanced air mobility (AAM) has captured the public’s imagination […]
Jack Kolb completes his Thesis Proposal
February 1, 2024: Jack Kolb completes his thesis proposal on “Applying User Cognitive State to Human-Robot Interaction and Role Assignment” Abstract: Robots are increasingly deployed to support individuals in high-workload or closely collaborative environments across various operational domains. However, limited research has explored how robots can actively leverage a user’s cognitive state to personalize their […]
Divya Srivastava successfully defends her dissertation
November 14, 2023: Divya Srivastava successfully defends her Ph.D. Dissertation titled ‘Transparency and Operator Performance in Human-Autonomy Teams’. Abstract: AI-advised Decision Making is a form of human-autonomy teaming in which an AI recommender system suggests a solution to a human operator, who is responsible for the final decision. This dissertation work seeks to empower and most […]
Sarah Walsh successfully defends her dissertation
November 2, 2023. Sarah Walsh successfully defends her Ph.D. Dissertation titled ‘Shared Mental Models in Human-Agent Team Decision Making’ Abstract:To effectively utilize AI-decision support tools, a human-AI team (HAT) must be able to maintain a shared understanding of the environment, team goals, and problem constraints. Otherwise, the human-AI team performance will not outperform individual performance. […]
Jack Kolb presents at IEEE Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication
Jack presented his work on comparing the impacts of False Positive and False Negative recommendation errors in a structured shared decision making domain (mars rover landing) at the 2023 IEEE Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN).
Walsh presents at IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
Sarah Walsh presented her paper ‘Mental Models of AI Performance and Bias of Nontechnical Users’ at the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC). This work investigates users’ mental models of an AI-decision aid. The paper details an experiment designed within the ‘Disaster Relief’ experimental environment.
Ranjani Narayanan presents at 67th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
Ranjani presented her paper along with Sarah Walsh on “Development of Mental Models in Decision Making Tasks” at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) in Washington D.C. This work investigates the dynamic behavior of users’ decision strategies and the stability and predictability of their mental models over time.
Vinodhini Comandur speaks at MIT Future Leaders in Aerospace Symposium
Vinodhini was selected to attend the MIT Future Leaders in Aerospace Symposium where participants present their research to the attendees, engage with mentors, discuss emerging trends in aerospace engineering, and connect with a cohort of their peers.
Research Engineer, Bruce Alstrom, presents at the 79th Vertical Flight Society Forum
Bruce co-authored a paper titled “Quantifying Taskload and Workload with Instantaneous Power Spectrum: An Initial Assessment of 3D Conformal Cueing in Rotorcraft Shipboard Landing“, which was presented at the 79th Vertical Flight Society (VFS) Forum. This work investigates using Instantaneous Power Spectrum as a technique to quantify taskload and pilot workload during helicopter shipboard landing.