Year: 2011
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: —Declines in situation awareness (SA) often accompany automation. Some of these effects have been characterized as out-of-the-loop, complacency, and automation bias. Increasing autonomy in multi-robot control might be expected to produce similar declines in operators ’ SA. In this paper we review a series of experiments in which automation is introduced in controlling robot teams. Automating path planning at a foraging task improved both target detection and localization which is closely tied to SA. Timing data, however, suggested small declines in SA for robot location and pose. Automation of image acquisition, by contrast, led to poorer localization. Findings are discussed and alternative explanations involving shifts in strategy proposed. Keywords-human-robot interaction; robot teams; situation awareness I.
Authors: Michael Lewis, Katia Sycara
Institutions: University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University
Language: English
Subfield: Human Factors and Ergonomics
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Awards: G2590683192, G4407299727
OpenAlex ID: W191743288