Navigating the Advent of Human-Machine Teaming

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 455-459
Author(s):  
J. Christopher Brill ◽  
M. L. Cummings ◽  
A.W. Evans ◽  
Peter A. Hancock ◽  
Joseph B. Lyons ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Factors ◽  
Autonomous Systems ◽  
Defense Industry ◽  
Learning Systems ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Human Capabilities ◽  
Session Time ◽  
Human Agent ◽  
Bill Evans

The objective of this panel was to discuss issues related to human-machine (or human-agent) teaming (HMT). Panelists were selected to represent diverse interests and backgrounds (i.e., defense, industry, and academia). Chris Brill provided opening remarks to frame the discussion and introduce the panelists. He then raised several questions related to HMT, such as what is HMT, what level of autonomy is required for HMT, and how do we develop trust in autonomous teammates that learn, change, and potentially, individuate. Missy Cummings built on the issue of learning systems, addressing challenges of certifying systems that, as a function of learning, may cease to be known quantities. Bill Evans spoke to the need for transparency in human-agent teaming. Joseph Lyons addressed social factors in HMT. Peter Hancock detailed his concerns about whether forays into HMT are even advisable, particularly as doing so may lead to dehumanization, or worse, volitional demotion of humans from our current status as apex lifeforms on Earth. Lastly, Kevin Oden expanded the discussion of trust in autonomous systems, while also providing thoughts on how to best leverage human capabilities in the context of HMT. The panel then turned to facilitated discussion with panelists and audience members, constituting the majority of the session time. The session concluded with panelists summarizing their thoughts on how HF/E professionals can or should play a role in the advent of HMT.

scholarly journals Next Generation European Research Vessels: Current Status and Foreseeable Evolution

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Per Nieuwejaar ◽  
Valerie Mazauric ◽  
Christian Betzler ◽  
Mafalda Carapuco ◽  
Andre Cattrijsse ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Position Paper ◽  
Research Vessel ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Marine Science ◽  
European Research ◽  
Human Capabilities ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Future ◽  
Science Community ◽  
High Level

This position paper provides a review of the current European research vessel fleet, its capabilities and equipment, assessing its ability to support marine science across the globe now and into the future. It particularly looks at current and future capabilities in the context of deep sea and Polar research. It also takes a wider vision, assessing the importance of these vessels in the ocean and earth observing landscape. This review includes not only technological but also human capabilities, looking at training needs for crew and technicians to ensure they can continue to deliver on critical science needs. It also considers the ways in which the current European fleet is managed.This Position Paper sets out recommendations for how the fleet will need to develop in the future to ensure that it will continue to provide the same high level of support to science globally, as well as highlighting ways in which management could be made more efficient. It is aimed at national- and European-level policy makers and funders, as well as the marine science community and the research vessel operator community.

A Flexible Human-Agent Interaction model for supervised autonomous systems

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salama A. Mostafa ◽  
Mohd Sharifuddin Ahmad ◽  
Azhana Ahmad ◽  
Muthukkaruppan Annamalai ◽  
Saraswathy Shamini Gunasekaran
Keyword(s):  
Autonomous Systems ◽  
Interaction Model ◽  
Human Agent ◽  
Agent Interaction

Between Rescue and Research: An Evaluation after 30 Years of Liberal Metal Detecting in Archaeological Research and Heritage Practice in Denmark

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 704-725 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andres S. Dobat
Keyword(s):  
Social Factors ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Complex Interplay ◽  
Metal Detector ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Danish Experience ◽  
Metal Detectors

Since the early 1980s, metal detector surveying conducted by amateur archaeologists has contributed significantly to archaeological research and heritage practice in Denmark. Here, metal detecting has always been legal, and official stakeholders pursue a liberal model, focusing on cooperation and inclusion rather than confrontation and criminalization. Like no other surveying method since the invention of the shovel, the metal detector has contributed to increasing enormously the amount of data and sites from metal-rich periods. Virtually all of the spectacular and ground-breaking discoveries of the past decades are owed to metal detectors in the hands of amateur archaeologists. And it is these finds and sites that today constitute one of the very foci of archaeological research. This article provides an overview of the current status of liberal metal detector archaeology in Denmark 30 years after its inception, and attempts to identify the reasons why this popular hobby never developed into the problem it has become in other parts of the world. It concludes that the success of the liberal model in Denmark is the result of a very complex interplay of legislative, historical, cultural, and social factors. On this basis, it is discussed whether the Danish experience can be used as a source of inspiration in the necessary progression towards a new legal agenda for responsible metal detector archaeology.

Variation and change in Chinese Korean: The case of vowel /y/

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenhua Jin
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Chinese Language ◽  
Local Network ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Speech Community ◽  
Dialect Contact

AbstractThis study investigates the current status of the vowel /y/, a phoneme that has undergone complete diphthongization to [wi] in Seoul Korean (Choo & O'Grady, 2003; Kang, 1997; Kim, 1988; Martin, 1992), in Chinese Korean. Set in the context of language and dialect contact, where Chinese language and different local/supralocal Korean norms all come into play, especially when the closed local social network no longer exists, Chinese Korean develops unique patterns of variation for underlying /y/, patterns heretofore unreported in the studies of other Korean varieties. Chinese Korean provides a case in point toward the explanation for how effects exerted by linguistic and social factors within a speech community may alter the diffusion of a change with origins outside the local network.

scholarly journals The winding path towards symbiotic autonomous systems

2021 ◽  
Vol 379 (2207) ◽  
pp. 20200361
Author(s):  
Roberto Saracco ◽  
Kathy Grise ◽  
Terence Martinez
Keyword(s):  
Autonomous Systems ◽  
Physical World ◽  
The Other ◽  
Specific Point ◽  
Theme Issue ◽  
Defining Moment ◽  
Human Capabilities ◽  
Evolutionary Paths ◽  
Human Augmentation ◽  
Transitional System

Over the next 10 years, we are likely to see the convergence of two independent evolutionary paths: one leading to an augmentation of machine capabilities; the other with the augmentation of human capabilities. This convergence will not happen at a specific point in time; instead, it will be the result of progressive overlapping, to the point that it might be difficult to identify a defining moment. The following decade will likely be quite different from the present one. 5G will probably be remembered as a transitional system, artificial intelligence (AI) as a misplaced objective. We are looking forward to a communications fabric created by autonomous systems that will exist both in the physical world as well as in cyberspace, determining a continuum that gives rise to digital reality and where intelligence is an emerging property of the ambient. Hence, the dichotomy between AI and natural intelligence will no longer exist and AI will be considered as a tool for human augmentation and as the glue connecting minds and machines. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Towards symbiotic autonomous systems’.

scholarly journals Towards Data Justice Unionism? A Labour Perspective on AI Governance

2021 ◽  
pp. 267-284
Author(s):  
Lina Dencik
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Autonomous Systems ◽  
Learning Systems ◽  
Worker Productivity ◽  
Labour Movement ◽  
Profound Impact ◽  
Data Infrastructures

The dual occurrences of constant data collection and use of artificial and autonomous systems in the workplace are having a profound impact on workers’ lives. Workers are subjected to constant surveillance that not only monitor worker productivity but factors unrelated to work. At the same time, machine learning systems are using these data to transform how work is being allocated, assessed and completed and as a result, worker lives and value in the workplace and beyond. Yet governance frameworks for AI have thus far been advanced with a noticeable absence of worker voice, unions, and labour perspectives. In this chapter I will discuss how concerns about data and data infrastructures need to be situated as part of a workers’ rights agenda, the role of the labour movement in advancing alternative governance frameworks, and the potential for data justice unionism.

Transformative technical and vocational training in tertiary agricultural education in Africa.

2021 ◽  
pp. 212-226
Author(s):  
Abraham Sarfo ◽  
Caroline Mutepfa
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Vocational Education ◽  
Agricultural Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Systems ◽  
Vocational Education And Training ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Improving Teaching And Learning ◽  
And Training

Abstract This chapter deals with the role of technical and vocation training in African tertiary agricultural education, pointing out the vital contribution of agricultural technical and vocational education and training (TVET) institutions in preparing youth both for employment and for further studies. The chapter discusses: the challenges to agricultural TVET; the current status of agricultural training centres; the goals identified for reforming agricultural TVET in Africa; innovative approaches for improving teaching and learning systems; the role of the private sector in the successful development of agricultural TVET; and the linkages between agricultural TVET and tertiary agricultural education.

A TECHNOLOGY VALUATION MODEL FOR THE DEFENSE R&D WITH INCOME APPROACH

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (04) ◽  
pp. 1350017 ◽  
Author(s):  
WON-JOON JANG ◽  
CHOONJOO LEE
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Policy ◽  
Defense Industry ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Creative Economy ◽  
Industry Sector ◽  
Valuation Model ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Defense Technology ◽  
Policy Objectives ◽  
Near Future

Korea government initiated the Government's Defense Industrial Policy, "Defense Industry as a New Growth Engine for the Creative Economy", followed by establishing the defense industrial policy objectives and making efforts to reach them. Accordingly, the defense export dragged attention from the defense industry sector and as a result recorded nearly 0.8 billion dollars in 2011 which is doubled amount compared to year 2008. Considering that defense technology valuation is inevitable in defense trade, the defense technology valuation is going to be a key issue for the domestic defense R&D invested equipment including main battle tanks, armored vehicles, air trainers etc. This paper presents the defense R&D technology valuation model with the in-depth analysis of its theories and current status both domestic and abroad. Also, it provides relevant policy issues and directions in the near future. It should contribute to boosting the defense technology valuation fields and to formulating a concrete tool for analyzing defense R&D technology valuation in the near future.

scholarly journals A Framework for Engineering Human/Agent Teaming Systems

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (03) ◽  
pp. 2477-2484
Author(s):  
Rick Evertsz ◽  
John Thangarajah
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Autonomous Systems ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Team Cognition ◽  
Ability To Work ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Human Agent ◽  
Coordination Requirements ◽  
Strategy Game ◽  
Human Participants

The increasing capabilities of autonomous systems offer the potential for more effective teaming with humans. Effective human/agent teaming is facilitated by a mutual understanding of the team objective and how that objective is decomposed into team roles. This paper presents a framework for engineering human/agent teams that delineates the key human/agent teaming components, using TDF-T diagrams to design the agents/teams and then present contextualised team cognition to the human team members at runtime. Our hypothesis is that this facilitates effective human/agent teaming by enhancing the human's understanding of their role in the team and their coordination requirements. To evaluate this hypothesis we conducted a study with human participants using our user interface for the StarCraft strategy game, which presents pertinent, instantiated TDF-T diagrams to the human at runtime. The performance of human participants in the study indicates that their ability to work in concert with the non-player characters in the game is significantly enhanced by the timely presentation of a diagrammatic representation of team cognition.

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