Human-agent team
A human-agent team is a system composed of multiple interacting humans and artificial intelligence systems. The artificial intelligence system may be a robotic system, a decision support system, or a virtual agent. Human agent teaming provides an interaction paradigm that differs from traditional approaches such as supervisory control, or user interface design, by enabling the computer to have a certain degree of autonomy. The paradigm draws from various scientific research fields, being strongly inspired by the way humans work together in teams, and constituting a special type of multi-agent system.
Concept
that behave as artificial team players satisfy the following general requirements:- Observability: agents must make their status, intentions, knowledge observable to others.
- Predictability: agents must be predictable to others such that others can rely on them when considering their own actions
- Directability: agents must be capable of directing the behavior of others, as well as be directed by others.
- Proactively communicating information to other agents to establish shared situation awareness within the team
- Explaining their decisions and recommendations to other teammates to establish appropriate levels of trust
- Receiving instructions at a high level of abstraction.
- Choosing the right moment of interaction to prevent inconvenient interruptions of other team members.
- Notifying others when they believe they can no longer contribute their part of the work required to fulfill the team goal.