We investigate the real-time estimation of human situation awareness using observations from a robot team- mate with limited visibility. In human factors and human- autonomy teaming, it is recognized that individuals navigate their environments using an internal mental simulation, or mental model. The mental model informs cognitive processes including situation awareness, contextual reasoning, and task […]
Richard Agbeyibor presents at the VFS Complex Systems Technical Meeting (2024)
Looking 10-20 years into the future, in the rapidly advancing world of autonomous, special ops, cargo, and Medevac aircraft, all of the basic aviation functions will likely be handled completely and competently by AI agents embedded within air vehicles. Under nominal conditions (and many basic off-nominal situations) the AI-controlled vehicle will operate autonomously and independently […]
Ranjani Narayanan presents at the Mutual Theory of Mind Workshop at 2024 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Human collaboration with automation is premised on performance augmentation. Highly effective human teams develop and utilize a shared mental model (SMM), a mutual understanding of tasks and teammates involved in joint undertakings. This theory has been extended to human-AI teams (HATs) aimed at achieving effective performance but continues to be studied in situations where both […]
Richard Agbeyibor presents at the IEEE/AIAA 43rd Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC 2024)
Many aviation missions today are accomplished by a heterogeneous crew of pilots and mission specialists. As fully Automated Pilots (AP) are integrated into aviation crews, effective teaming will be necessary for safety assurance and mission effectiveness. This flight simulator study explored teaming between a non-pilot human operator and an AP collaborating on a maritime Intelligence, […]
Richard Agbeyibor presents at the 2024 Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting
This study explores human-autonomy collaboration between a future autonomous pilot and a human crew member pursuing a joint Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) mission. We introduce a novel open-sourced autonomous ISR interaction domain simulating real-world scenarios. As aviation increasingly integrates autonomy, our focus lies in understanding how various autonomous capabilities and interface features affect trust, […]
Richard Agbeyibor presents at the AIAA AVIATION FORUM AND ASCEND 2024
The maturation of autonomy for electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft will soon make it possible to execute military intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance (ISR) missions aboard crewed autonomous aerial vehicles. This research experimentally investigates factors that may influence the quality of interaction (i.e., team fluency) between a non-pilot human operator and the AI pilot responsible for […]
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.
Divya passes Thesis Proposal
11/11/2022: Divya Srivastava, 5th year Mechanical Engineering student, successfully proposed her PhD thesis entitled ‘Transparency and Operator Performance in Human-Autonomy Teams.’ Summary: Human-autonomy teams aim to leverage the different strengths of humans and autonomous systems respectively to exceed the individual capabilities of each through collaboration. Highly effective human teams develop and utilize a shared mental […]
CEC PhD Students Win 1st and 2nd Place Doctoral Doctoral Research Awards at ICHMS 2022
The 2022 IEEE International Conference on Human-Machine Systems (ICHMS), held in Orlando, Florida, conducted a Doctoral Research Award Competition (DAC) or doctoral research contributions. Contributions were ranked for both paper submissions and conference presentations by a conference review team. Two CEC Lab members won awards, Sarah Walsh (5th year Robotics PhD Candidate) and Divya Srivastava (5th year […]
IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Impact of Missing Information and Strategy on Decision Making (Best Paper Award)
Performance Decision makers frequently encounter environments without perfect information, in which factors such as the distribution of missing information and estimates of missing information significantly impact decision accuracy and speed. This work presents an experiment which modifies an environment with missing information (total information, option imbalance, cue balance) and examines user estimates of the missing […]