ICT Lead: David Traum
We investigate issues of Human-Multi Robot and Agent-Robot collaboration in a simulated environment.
In the simulation, a small town is under threat of an approaching natural disaster (simulated wildfire), and a single-human/multirobot team has been tasked to find residents and help them evacuate safely. A human participant assumes the role of a swarm operator, tasked with the swift and safe evacuation of the town residents before the fire arrives at their location. The operator handles the high-level assignment of duties to members of the swarm, while low-level decisions are taken by the swarm itself. The operator also handles communication with residents who need to be evacuated.
An initial overview of the simulation can be foiund here:
- Patricia Chaffey, Ron Artstein, Kallirroi Georgila, Kimberly A. Pollard, Setareh Nasihati Gilani, David M. Krum, David Nelson, Kevin Huynh, Alesia Gainer, Seyed Hossein Alavi, Rhys Yahata, Anton Leuski, Volodymyr Yanov, and David Traum. Human Swarm Interaction using Plays, Audibles, and a Virtual Spokesperson. In Proceedings of SPIE 11413, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Multi-Domain Operations Applications II, 114130V, SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing Conference, Online Only, California, USA, 2020.
Some recent findings from analyzing collected data can be found here:
- Setareh Nasihati Gilani, Kimberly Pollard, David Traum, Multimodal Prediction of User’s Performance in High-Stress Dialogue Interactions, ICMI ’23 Late Breaking Results, Paris, October 2023.
- Claire To, Setareh Nasihati Gilani, David Traum, Common Strategy Patterns of Persuasion in a Mission Critical and Time Sensitive Task, The 27th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (Semdial 2023 Marilogue), August 2023.
We are currently continuing the data analysis and automating townspeople.