IBM ITA: Human-Agent Teamwork Models - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University
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IBM ITA: Human-Agent Teamwork Models
Project Head: Katia Sycara

The focus of this project is to develop models of human-agent teamwork for implementation in software agent systems. Both human collaboration and software agent collaboration have been thoroughly studied, but there is relatively little prior work on hybrid human-agent teamwork. Some research has identified the roles that agents could play in hybrid teams (e.g. supporting individual team members, being a teammate, or supporting the team as a whole). Some other work has investigated trust concepts as the fundamental building block for effective human-agent teamwork, or posited the types of shared knowledge that promote mutual understanding between cooperating humans and agents. However many of the facets of human agent teamwork models, such as communication protocols for forming mutual intelligibility, performing team monitoring to assess progress, forming joint goals, addressing task interdependencies in hybrid teamwork, are still unexplored. This project is part of IBM’s International Technology Alliance in Network and Information Sciences (ITA), a consortium of leading academic and industry partners performing research in network-centric systems.

Displaying 17 Publications

2010
Katia Sycara, Timothy J. Norman, Joseph Andrew Giampapa, Martin Kollingbaum, Christopher Burnett, Daniele Masato, Mairi McCallum, and Michael H. Strub
Journal Article, The Computer Journal, Vol. 53, No. 5, pp. 528 - 540, June, 2010
2009
Martin Kollingbaum, Joseph Andrew Giampapa, Katia Sycara, and Timothy Norman
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 3rd Annual Conference of the International Technology Alliance (ACITA '09), August, 2009
Martin Kollingbaum, Joseph Andrew Giampapa, Katia Sycara, Timothy J. Norman, Christopher Burnett, and Daniele Masato
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS '09), Vol. 2, pp. 1313 - 1314, May, 2009
Gita Sukthankar, Katia Sycara, Joseph Andrew Giampapa, and Christopher Burnett
Book Section/Chapter, Handbook of Research on Multi-Agent Systems: Semantics and Dynamics of Organizational Models, pp. 285 - 313, February, 2009
Steven Okamoto, Katia Sycara, and Paul Scerri
Book Section/Chapter, Handbook of Research on Multi-Agent Systems: Semantics and Dynamics of Organizational Models, pp. 514 - 540, February, 2009
2008
Joseph Andrew Giampapa, Katia Sycara, and Gita Sukthankar
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 1st International Working Conference on Human Factors and Computational Models in Negotiation (HuCom '08), pp. 55 - 62, December, 2008
Christopher Burnett, Daniele Masato, Mairi McCallum, Timothy J. Norman, Joseph Andrew Giampapa, Martin Kollingbaum, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 2nd Annual Conference of the International Technology Alliance (ACITA '08), September, 2008
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 23rd National Conference on Artificial intelligence (AAAI '08), pp. 998 - 1003, July, 2008
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 7th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS '08), Vol. 3, pp. 1383 - 1388, May, 2008
Gita Sukthankar, Katia Sycara, Joseph Andrew Giampapa, and Christopher Burnett
Conference Paper, Proceedings of NATO Research and Technology Organisation: Human Factors and Medicine Panel Symposium, April, 2008

current head

past staff

  • Christopher Burnett
  • Martin Kollingbaum

past contact

  • Lori R Price