Allocation of moral decision-making in human-agent teams: A pattern approach

Artificially intelligent agents will deal with more morally sensitive situations as the field of AI progresses. Research efforts are made to regulate, design and build Artificial Moral Agents (AMAs) capable of making moral decisions. This research is highly multidisciplinary with each their own jargon and vision, and so far it is unclear whether...

Adaptive Agents for Fit-for-Purpose Training

Simulators and games provide contextually rich environments, enabling learners to experience the relations between actions, events and outcomes. In order to be effective, learning situations need to be tailored to the needs of the individual learner. Virtual characters (or agents) that, in real time, select, adapt, and exhibit the behavior that...

Towards a Mixed Reality Platform for Applied Cognitive Load Evaluation

Physical load experienced by dismounted military has already been studied extensively. Few studies, however, have focused on the cognitive load of dismounted soldiers during military operations in the field. In this project, a cognitive task analysis (CTA) was performed to study the cognitive workload of a troop commander during troop hasty...

Using perceptual and cognitive explanations for enhanced human-agent team performance

Interaction Design Patterns for Adaptive Human-Agent-Robot Teamwork in High-Risk Domains

Integrating cognitive agents and robots into teams that operate in high-demand situations involves mutual and context-dependent behaviors of the human and agent/robot team-members. We propose a cognitive engineering method that includes the development of Interaction Design patterns for such systems as re-usable, theoretically and empirically...

A method to reveal workload weak-resilience-signals at a rail control post

Reorganization of a rail control post may affect its ability to cope with unexpected disruptions. The term ‘resilience’, the ability to manage spare adaptive capacity when unexpected events occur, encapsulates this situation. This paper focuses on the workload adaptive capacity through a method for revealing workload weak-resilience-signals (WRS...

Personal Assistant for onLine Services: Addressing human factors

The Personal Assistant for onLine Services (PALS) project aims at substantially improving the user experience of mobile internet services. It focuses on a generic solution: a personal assistant, which attunes the interaction to the momentary user needs and use context (e.g. adjusting the information, presentation and navigation support to the...

Cognitive task load: A function of time occupied, level of information processing and task-set switches

Visual support for the control of unmanned platforms

There may be various possibilities that may help to overcome the inherent human factors problems in remote control situations that result in degraded situation awareness. The present paper presents two studies focussing on relatively simple image augmentation solutions. In these studies operators of a camera of a simulated unmanned air vehicle,...