In ISE 773, Professor David Woods looks at new technologies and automation in distributed work and cognition.
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Class 17- Review of Collaboration & Automation Issues
Examples of DOD related coordination and complexity issues exemplify important role of complex system design and integration. Alarm systems that don’t cooperate with people lead to critiquing by the users, preventing important automated response systems from being properly used as “envelope protection”. If automated systems have authority, but people are stuck with the responsibility, a
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Class 16- Costs of Coordination
Coordination has costs. What factors influence movement between the 'single agent' and the 'collaborative team' poles of the collaboration spectrum?
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Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Class 15- Trust and Reciprocity
A mixed area scenario introduces problems not seen in other robot scenarios—in particular, robots and people directly interacting. As with any team member, trust in the capabilities of the agent is important. Anticipation of reciprocity is the basis of collaboration.
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Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Class 13- Robots on the beachhead
The Mars rover is an example of a beachhead scenario, in which the robot is a remote extension of human intentions. Protecting the investment involves monitoring the fit between the environment, the robot’s capabilities, and the goal.
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Thursday, November 9, 2006
Class 12- Polycentric control
Polycentric control offers a contrast to traditional hierarchical command structures, with problem-holders and levels of scope as opposed to supervisors and levels of control. Examples of human-robot teams in different scenarios illustrate how humans, as context-sensitive agents, serve to bridge the context gap that affects literal-minded computer-agents.
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