AAAI Spring Symposium on Human Interaction with Autonomous Systems in Complex Environments
Symposium Overview
Autonomous systems can greatly reduce human workload in complex
environments by handling routine or cognitively challenging
operations. Such autonomous systems, however change the nature of
human tasks and can introduce new risks. Thus, a key question for
this symposium is: How do we make people more effective and safe in
performing tasks in cooperation with an autonomous system? It is our
view that effective human interaction with autonomous systems requires
more than just good user interface design. It involves substantial
challenges in the design of the autonomous systems themselves and in
the representation and use of the cognitive models underpinning human
interaction with autonomous systems. More specifically, how does the
need to interact with people affect design requirements for autonomous
agent functions such as planning, scheduling and intent inference.
Human-autonomy interaction raises issues such as how to accept task
inputs from humans, how to adjust the level of autonomy and/or
changethe distribution of roles and responsibilities between
autonomous systems and human, how to model humans and their tasks and
to what level of details, how to facilitate human understanding of the
goals, tasks and contexts of autonomous systems to reduce the
potential that anomalies would lead to unexpected responses from the
system or inappropriate responses by the human.
The objective of this symposium is to encourage people doing research
in autonomous systems to interact with researchers in human-computer
interaction. We are interested in applications to environments in
which people interact with autonomous systems regularly and in-depth.
We call these human-centered autonomous systems and they include
autonomous control of buildings or spacecraft, robots that interact
with people, and software for assisting complex human tasks, such as
logistics planning.
Accepted Papers:
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Tentative Schedule:
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Program Committee:
David Kortenkamp, NASA Johnson Space Center/Metrica Inc. (co-chair)
Mike Freed, NASA Ames Research Center (co-chair)
Michael Cleary, Draper Laboratory
Debra Schreckenghost, NASA JSC/Metrica Inc.
Reid Simmons, Carnegie Mellon University
David Woods, Ohio State University
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