From: AAAI Technical Report SS-03-04. Compilation copyright © 2003, AAAI (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved.
Human Interaction with Autonomous
Systems in Complex Environments
Papers from the 2003 AAAI Spring Symposium
Technical Report SS-03-04
AAAI Press
American Association for Artificial Intelligence
Human Interaction with Autonomous
Systems in Complex Environments
Papers from the 2003 AAAI Symposium
David Kortenkamp & Michael Freed, Cochairs
March 24–26, Stanford, California
Technical Report SS-03-04
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Organizing Committee
David Kortenkamp, NASA JSC/Metrica Inc. (Cochair)
Michael Freed, NASA Ames Research Center (Cochair)
Michael Cleary, Draper Laboratory
Debra Schreckenghost, NASA JSC/Metrica Inc.
Reid Simmons, Carnegie Mellon University
David Woods, Ohio State University
Contents
MAPGEN: Mixed Initiative Planning and Scheduling for the Mars ’03 MER Mission / 1
Mitchell Ai-Chang, John Bresina, Len Charest, Ari Jonsson, Jennifer Hsu, Bob Kanefsky,
Pierre Maldague, Paul Morris, Kanna Rajan, and Jeffrey Yglesias
Enhancing Performance through Improved Coordination (EPIC) / 7
Benjamin Bell, Jennifer Fowlkes and John Deaton
Living with Agents and Liking It: Addressing the Technical and
Social Acceptability of Agent Technology / 15
Jeff M. Bradshaw, Maarten Sierhuis. Alessandro Acquisti, Paul Feltovich,
Robert Hoffman, Renia Jeffers, Niranjan Suri, Andrzej Uszok, and Ron Van Hoof
Integrating Human Abilities with the Power of Automated Scheduling Systems:
Representational Epistemological Interface Design / 23
Peter C-H. Cheng, Rossano Barone, Samad Ahmadi and Peter I. Cowling
Agent Interaction with Human Systems in Complex Environments:
Requirements for Automating the Function of CapCom in Apollo 17 / 30
William J. Clancey
Learning from Pilot Performance / 38
Christophe Doniat
Homer: Human Oriented Messenger Robot / 45
Pantelis Elinas, Jesse Hoey, and James J. Little
Social User Agents for Dynamic Access to Wireless Networks / 52
P. Faratin, G. Lee, J. Wroclawski, and S. Parsons
An Autonomous Software Agent for Navy Personnel Work: A Case Study / 60
Stan Franklin
Modeling and Interacting with Agents in Mixed Environments / 66
Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz
Neglect Tolerant Teaming: Issues and Dilemmas / 75
Michael A. Goodrich, Jacob W. Crandall, and Jeffrey L. Stimpson
A Probability-Aware Planning Architecture to Support Variable Autonomy / 83
J. P. Gunderson and W. N. Martin
Teaching Robots How to Discover What Humans Want / 89
Louise F. Gunderson and Donald E. Brown
Principles of Skeptical Systems / 95
Steve A. Harp and Christopher W. Geib
Discovering Human Desired Norms of Interaction Improves
Social Adeptness in Agents / 101
Henry Hexmoor and Srinivas Battula
Human Interfaces for Space Situational Awareness / 107
John D. Ianni
Plant + Control System + Human: Three's a Crowd / 113
Kurt D. Krebsbach and David J. Musliner
Towards Hands-Free Human-Robot Interaction through Spoken Dialog / 117
Vladimir A. Kulyukin
A Rule-Based Strategy for Astronaut Following Operations / 123
Jamie A. Lennon and Ella M. Atkins
Information for Successful Interaction with Autonomous Systems / 129
Jane T. Malin and Kathy A. Johnson
Aiding Collaboration among Humans and Complex Software Agents / 134
Cheryl Martin, Debra Schreckenghost, Peter Bonasso, David Kortenkamp,
Tod Milam and Carroll Thronesbery
Survey Data Collection Using Complex Automated Questionnaires / 142
William P. Mockovak
Natural Methods for Learning and Generalization in Human-Robot Domains / 154
Monica N. Nicolescu and Maja J. Mataric
Integrating User Commands and Autonomous Task Performance in a Reinforcement Learning Framework / 160
V. N. Papudesi, Y. Wang, M. Huber, and D. J. Cook
Getting Robots, Agents and People to Cooperate: An Initial Report / 166
Paul Scerri, Lewis Johnson, David V. Pynadath, Paul Rosenbloom,
Nathan Schurr, Mei Si, and Milind Tambe
Adaptive Interfaces for Value-Driven Agents / 173
Daniel Shapiro and Melinda Gervasio
(Not) Interacting with a Robot Photographer / 181
William D. Smart, Cindy M. Grimm, Michael Dixon, and Zachary Byers
Java™ Intelligent Tutoring System Model and Architecture / 187
Edward R. Sykes
Interface for Monitoring and Interacting with Multi-Terrain Robot Teams / 194
Sheila Tejada and Eric Normand
Scaling High Level Interactions between Humans and Robots / 196
Ashley D. Tews, Maja J. Mataric, and Gaurav S. Sukhatme
Learning WordNet-Based Classification Rules / 203
Sebastian van Delden
Work-Centered Infomediary Layer (WIL): An Architecture for Adaptive Interfaces / 208
Wayne Zachary and Benjamin Bell
Substituting Touch for Vision / 213
John Zelek, Sam Bromley, and Daniel Asmar
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