Shared Mental Models as a Way of Managing Transparency in Complex Human-Autonomy Teaming

Gabriele Scali, Robert D. Macredie

2019

Abstract

This paper argues that because of the cognitive and communication limitations of human and autonomous agents engaged in Human-Autonomy Teaming within dynamic environments, various external factors, which can be classified collectively as environment complexity, set boundaries to the effectiveness of strategies for agent transparency – that is, the ability of autonomous agents to make human actors aware of their goals, actions, reasoning, and expectations of future states. Understanding the mechanisms by which changes in environment complexity affect transparency, and the conditions in which it can be disrupted, can help researchers to better frame the results of existing and future studies on transparency and, in turn, inform the development of strategies to modify autonomous agents’ behaviour to maintain transparency under different environment conditions. It is proposed that one such strategy could be the adjustment of the level of abstraction of the shared mental model adopted by the team as the common ground for communication so as to keep the amount of information that is exchanged manageable within human cognitive limitations.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Scali G. and Macredie R. (2019). Shared Mental Models as a Way of Managing Transparency in Complex Human-Autonomy Teaming. In Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2019) - Volume 2: HUCAPP; ISBN 978-989-758-354-4, SciTePress, pages 153-159. DOI: 10.5220/0007484801530159

in Bibtex Style

@conference{hucapp19,
author={Gabriele Scali and Robert D. Macredie},
title={Shared Mental Models as a Way of Managing Transparency in Complex Human-Autonomy Teaming},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2019) - Volume 2: HUCAPP},
year={2019},
pages={153-159},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007484801530159},
isbn={978-989-758-354-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISIGRAPP 2019) - Volume 2: HUCAPP
TI - Shared Mental Models as a Way of Managing Transparency in Complex Human-Autonomy Teaming
SN - 978-989-758-354-4
AU - Scali G.
AU - Macredie R.
PY - 2019
SP - 153
EP - 159
DO - 10.5220/0007484801530159
PB - SciTePress