Dr. Nhut Tan Ho
Ellie Kazemi
Joe Bautista
Suzanne Scheld
Li Liu
Kyle Dewey
Human Swarming Teaming Platform for Research in Human Automation Trust and Reliance
Project Type:
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Project Sponsors:
- US Department of Defense - DOD
Project Award:
- $1,100,032
Project Timeline:
2019-08-19 – 2020-08-18
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Researchers at California State University, Northridge (CSUN), in collaboration with researchers and subject matter experts at Wright Patterson Air Force Research Laboratory, the US Air Force Academy, and Edwards Air Force Base and NASA, are currently engaged in DoD research funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Trust and Influence Program. With this proposal, we are seeking support to acquire instrumentation that will enhance current research capabilities and extend the impact of the existing research program, for the Air Force and its strategic research interests, and for the faculty and students at CSUN. The proposed $445390 instrumentation is a system of equipment consisting of Unmanned Aerial and Ground Systems, Advanced Operator Control, Intelligent Interfaces, Computer Workstations, Bio-Physiological Instrumentation, Humanoid Robots, and MultiDomain Sensors. This system of equipment will be integrated and interfaced with existing software in the Systems Engineering Research Laboratory under the directorship of Dr. Ho and The Human Computing Lab co-directed by Dr. Liu and Dr. Dewey, and collectively will form a human swarming teaming research platform (HSTRP) that has the capability to conduct live or simulated operations involved collaborative teamwork between human operators and a swarm of unmanned vehicles. The HSTRP will enable the researchers to use swarming operations as the context to research a wide range of issues related to human automation trust, such as the construct of automation transparency as a mechanism for driving trust calibration, the role of team and organizational structure on trust development, trade-off between trustworthy and trustable automation, novel human-machine interaction concepts, and computer-supported collaborative work for using artificial intelligence to ensure that human and machine teammates maintain awareness of each other?s unique mental models, methods to convey human trust to the swarm, approaches for using biologically-inspired metaphors to assist operator?s understanding of swarming behaviors and training, operating interaction in both control & command room and in the field, and user interface design principles that promote appropriate human reliance. The proposed instrumentation also enables a gamut of researchrelated education activities, including the integration of research into undergraduate/graduate student theses and classroom case studies and projects, the summer internship and career shadow programs for high school students in PI and co-PIs research lab, and for other outreach and service learning activities that aim to broaden women?s and underrepresented minorities? participation in research and careers related to DoD mission